Sets on microform probably account for most failures of local bibliographic control within libraries. (Author)

This is the 1977 listing of subscription, government, and gift periodicals, newspapers, and services which are currently received by the State Library of Ohio. Entries are arranged alphabetically by title, followed by a location symbol to designate where a particular title is housed in the library--Reference, Genealogy, Tower Library, and…

The article comments on the importance of the publications and on their subject range and gives a detailed bibliography of a complete set with full information on all indexes. (13 references) (Author/SJ)

Contains a listing of federal publications available in microform, supplying price, publisher, format, estimated shelf space, and, where available, review citations to aid documents librarians conscious of the space saving advantages of microformatted documents. (Author)

This paper is directed toward the librarian from a library with a small state document collection. It discusses some possible places to begin a state document collection. (MF)

Discusses professional ethics involved in requests from the U.S. Superintendent of Documents to withdraw and destroy documents in library government document collections. Topics addressed include censorship considerations; classified versus unclassified documents; obligations to the parent organization; and examples of specific cases. (Contains 11…

Suggests 41 ways to promote greater library user awareness of a government documents collection. (PF)

The Texas State Publications Clearinghouse of the Texas State Library has prepared this list of materials pertaining to legislative and executive branch publications on the state and local level. Judicial branch publications are judged innappropriate as they are best left in the domain of the law library. The specific topics are…

In New Zealand, public libraries, academic libraries, a special library, and the National Library were surveyed and compared to the University of Oregon Library in the area of management of collections of government publications. The latter has been a depository for U.S. government publications since 1883. (VT)

This documents study was instituted to develop a structured list of New York State agencies that publish, to develop an agency classification system, and to explore a means by which subject access to Penfield Library's collection could be gained. A computer generated subject search tool was produced. (3 references) (Author)

This quarterly issue of the dictionary catalog contains all New York State monographs cataloged or recataloged at the state library between January 1 and April 4, 1980. Titles related to the state, but not necessarily official publications of the state agencies (e.g., town charters, ordinances) may also appear. Cataloging practices, filing rules,…

The microform collections of the University of Toronto Library are described with instructions for readers who wish to use them. The collections consist of microform reproductions of rare, out-of-print material and government documents. The entries are alphabetically arranged. Each is composed of details of subject coverage, bibliographical access…

This report has been prepared in order to assist those interested in learning more about the Texas State Publications Clearinghouse, to allow the staff to review the program's strengths and weaknesses, and to reassess goals and objectives for the future. In order to facilitate a clear understanding of how the program evolved, Section One presents…

A study was made on a reorganization of the holdings of government documents in the University into a separate collection. On the basis of evidence presented in the course of the study, depository status for all Canadian Federal Documents for the library, and a separate documents division to control and service them was recommended. The arguments…