Shows how practical problems in readability can be solved. Provides an example: an office of student financial assistance form, before and after revision. (PD)

Available sources for state and local documents are reviewed, including major commercial and non- commercial micropublishing projects. (Author/CMV)

Government depositories can supply teachers with a wide variety of information and teaching materials, ranging from background information, text supplements, audiovisual materials, to new sources for student research. (DS)

U.S. federal and state legislative and regulatory information is increasingly available electronically. This article provides descriptions of source providers and lists all major commercial dial-in services and Internet sources, providing alphabetical tables of 55 information categories and noting the names of each file covering a category and…

Discusses the present information age and considers ways in which government information can be better managed. Government information systems in the areas of economic statistics, educational statistics, and health statistics are examined; paperwork reduction efforts are described; and improving information resources management is discussed with…

The U.S. Serial Set has changed since its beginning in 1817. The early Serial Set is a large and comprehensive record of government activity, but the 20th-century Serial Set has been reduced in scope and contains almost no executive branch documents and only a select portion of congressional publications. Four tables outline the contents of the…

Discusses how the Nicaraguan revolutionary process affected Nicaragua internally and how published U.S. government information portrayed these effects in speeches and in writing. An attempt is made to assess the levels of accuracy and bias present in U.S. government information on the topic. (86 references) (Author/AEF)

Summarizes the first report on the Intergovernmental Records Project (IRP) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Topics discussed include the use of RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network), a lack of indexing consistency and access term selection, the need for standards, and shared cataloging. (six references) (LRW)

Discusses the operations of the Government Printing Office's Office of Superintendent of Documents and suggests that changes are needed. The depository library program is discussed, government publications are described, the proliferation of publications and other information sources is considered, and issues relating to improvements are raised.…

Discussion of the Government Printing Office's (GPO) role focuses on publication of federal history materials. Topics addressed include the diversity of federal government history programs; approaches for utilizing private publishers, including legal exemption, statutory exemptions, and placement in the public domain; and publication policy…

Annotates 30 government publications from Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Items are included that reflect social, health and welfare issues; descriptions of natural resources; economic development concerns; and the work of government departments and what the public can expect from them. (KRN)

Eleven issues were considered in study of Government Printing Office's Sales of Publications Program in areas such as pricing, marketing, program administration, and appeals of disputed prices. Sales Program study of documents pricing and government information dissemination proposes testing of alternative approaches to current pricing, increasing…

Annotates 100 state publications and discusses concerns related to state documents, including a lack of support of state documents depository programs by state legislatures; fiscal constraints; a lack of penalties for noncompliance with depository regulations; and a change in state document procedures by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).…

Provides an interpretation of the U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Printing (JCP) efforts to control departmental publishing from 1919 to 1921. Topics addressed include the JCP and the War Department, the role of the JCP in the defeat of the League of Nations, and the issue of separation of powers. (126 references) (LRW)

Discussion of the accessibility of government information focuses on how the Dutch government has tried to improve accessibility in six particular cases of electronic publishing. Topics include public-private partnerships, technological barriers of accessibility, outsourcing, and decentralization. (Author/LRW)