Despite technological advances in the processing of library materials, some Government Documents Units are still laboriously hand-lettering call numbers onto each document. Recently Marcive, Inc., has offered a new service that will give Government Documents librarians the chance to break into the 21st century by using preprinted labels, produced…

This document serves as a goals statement, a planning document, and statement of responsibility for Michigan federal documents depository libraries. The topics include goals, organization, resources, collections, services, standards, and the amendment process. Appendix A contains a directory of Michigan federal documents depository libraries, each…

To consolidate library public service points and reallocate staff resources, Old Dominion University Library (Virginia) transferred responsibility for government documents reference service to the library's main reference desk. A team-based approach was used to manage aspects of the merge, including training of reference desk staff and production…

Points out the availability of a wide range of information useful to business students (business statistics, information on international business, and entrepreneurship) available in federal government depository libraries. (SR)

Discussion of the need for bibliographic control of U.S. government documents in depository libraries focuses on a project that upgraded the GPO/MARC bibliographic tapes to permit documents to be included in public access catalogs. The roles of the participants are described, including MARCIVE, Inc., Louisiana State University, Rice University,…

This document is the third of four in a series of guides to the government documents collection in the academic library at St. Mary's University (San Antonio, Texas); the library has been a selective depository for U.S. Government publicatins since 1964. This guide provides a description of the Census Bureau publications available in the library's…

Promotes the use of an automated item file by selective depository libraries for collection management and cooperative collection development. Ways to implement such a device and useful data that it can generate are described. A case study of the implementation of the GOVDOX software by three libraries in Richmond, Virginia, is presented. (Three…

Discusses new partnerships created between the Government Printing Office and federal depository libraries to provide permanent access to the electronic files of agencies that have ceased operation. Describes one partnership with the University of North Texas to provide access to records of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.…

This report discusses the government documents policies and procedures of Illinois State University's Milner Library, a federal depository library. The following aspects of the documents collection are outlined: federal depository status; bibliographic control; maintenance; human resources; physical facilities; public service; and cooperative…

Describes the procedures followed in inventorying, cataloging, and barcoding government documents records from Government Printing Office (GPO) tapes as part of an integrated online system with Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore College libraries. The use of a vendor to help with retrospective cataloging is also described. (nine references) (LRW)

Two articles respond to the "Librarians' Manifesto," which discusses the U.S. Depository Library Program (DLP). The first urges that DLP be legislatively removed from the Government Printing Office. The second views the manifesto as the mindset of academic librarians, who think the DLP is a collection of entitlement programs for academic…

This document is the first of four in a series of guides to the government documents collection in the academic library at St. Mary's University (San Antonio, Texas); the library has been a selective depository for U.S. Government publications since 1964. The guide describes the document collection in general, including the nature of the…

This document is the second in a series of four guides to the government documents collection in the academic library at St. Mary's University (San Antonio, Texas); the library has been a selective depository for U.S. Government publications since 1964. Focusing on congressional publications pertaining to laws and regulations, this guide describes…

Libraries assume a significant financial obligation in the provision of government publications and products. The Government Printing Office (GPO) service roles, service pledges, and depository library service roles are discussed. The GPO's Superintendent of Documents (SUDOCS), an electronic depository program, will place a significant financial…

Metrodocs, an informal library cooperative in the Oklahoma City Metropolitan area consisting of eight academic and public depository libraries, produced this compilation of model acts, legislation, statutes, and ordinances--i.e., those that have been promulgated in order to satisfy a demand for legislation covering a particular subject in a…