Government Information Quarterly
Volume 2, Number 3, 1985
Discussion Forum:
Provision of Federal Government Publications in
Electronic Format to Depository Libraries
Peter Hernon ................................................... 231
Public Access to Congressional Records:
Present Policy and Reform Considerations
Harold C. Relyea ................................................ 235
International Trade Law
Publications
and Activities
of Selected ICOS and NCOS
Timothy Kearly ......................................... ....... 257
Depository Document Selection
in Academic Law Libraries:
A Core List of Items Selected
Sarah Holterhoff ............................................... 275
Bibliographic Systems of the Soviet Republics:
Moldavia and Tajikistan
Harold M. Leich.................................................... 291
Documents Librarianship
Managing an Integrated
Depository Documents Collection
Heija B. Ryoo .......................................... ....... 299
Contributors ........................................................ 315
Forthcoming ........................................................ 317
Reviews
David C. Heisser, Editor
Archival Choices: Managing the Historical Record
in an Age of Abundance
Edited by Nancy E. Peace
Reviewed by Mary B. Bowling .................................... 319
Controlling Regulatory Sprawl:
Presidential Strategies from Nixon to Reagan
By Howard Ball
Reviewed by Thomas A. Karel................................. 321
The Federal Data Base Finder:
A Directory of Free and Fee-Based Data
Bases and Files Available from
the Federal Government, 1984-85 Edition
By Sharon Zarozny and Monica Homer
Reviewed by Claire T. Loranz ....................................... 322
Federal Statistical Directory: A Personnel Directory
and Guide to Information Services
By Richard J. D'Aleo
Reviewed by James Gillispie........................................ 324
Historic America: Building, Structures, and Sites
Edited by Alicia Stanun and C. Ford Peatross
Reviewed by Charles May........................................... 325
The National Archives of the United States
By Hennan J. Viola
Reviewed by David C. R. Heisser .......................................... 327
Presidents of the Press: The Nixon Legacy
By Joseph C. Spear
Reviewed by Frank Hassencahl .................................... 328
Proceedings of International Conference of Government Publishers,
Printers, Librarians, and Users; Saratoga Springs Meeting,
August 29-September 1, 1982; Held at Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
Edited by Bemadine E. Abbott Hoduski and Maryellen Trautman
Reviewed by W. David Rozkuszka ................................. 329
Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare
By Tayacan
Reviewed by Peter I. Hajnal ...................................... 330
Secondary Research: Information Sources and Methods
By David W. Stewart
Reviewed by Christina J. Woo .................................... 332
List of Titles Received ................................................ 334
Guidelines for Reviews ............................................... 335
Public Access to Congressional Records:
Present Policy and Reform Considerations
HAROLD C. RELYEA
While the records of the Senate and House of Representatives are among the most valuable sources of information for enhancing public knowledge of congressional operations and decisions, they largely have not been available for examination unless they have been distributed as an official publication. Some have suggested that this situation could be rectified by making Congress subject to the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act. There are, however, both constitutional and practical problems in this approach. Nonetheless, there are those within the two Houses who are aware of the need for reform in this area, and efforts have been made to modify archival policies. Arguably, both citizens and legislators can benefit from improved records access arrangements.
International Trade Law: Publications and
Activities of Selected IGOS and NGOS
TIMOTHY KEARLEY
There has recently been an increase of interest in the legal basis of international trade. The worldwide recession has brought into the headlines accusations of treaty and contract violations among nations and enterprises engaged in transnational business. Thus, the role of such institutions as GATT, the OECD, and the European Community in regulating international trade has become a matter of substantial concern. This article will describe the activities and selected law and law-related publications of these institutions, as well as those of other international, intergovernmental organiza- tions (IGOS) and international, nongovernmental organizations (NGOS) that have an impact on international trade law. Selected commercially published reference and bibliographic works covering these institutions also will be mentioned.
Depository Document Selection in Academic
Law Libraries: A Core List of Items Selected
SARAH HOLTERHOFF
This article reports the results of a study done of the item selection patterns of selective federal depositories in academic law libraries. Previously published core lists of docu- ments for law school collections are reviewed, and the issue of a minimum percentage requirement for selection is clarified. The current study proposes a new list, one derived from research using data from the GPO Automated Item Number File. A magnetic tape of the item selections for the 143 law school libraries with depository status as of May 1983 was obtained by the author from the Government Printing Office. The tape was reformatted to show the number of libraries selecting each item. A list was then created of the 200 item numbers that appeared most frequently, and these were matched with SuDocs numbers using the List of Classes. The result is a core list of titles selected by three-fourths or more of the libraries. This list of basic titles is analyzed. Also discussed are the types of documents which appear on a list of 200 infrequently-selected item numbers (selected by 10 or I I percent of the libraries), though the list is not reproduced here. It was found that over two-thirds of the available item numbers are selected by less than 10 percent of the libraries. Results of this research can serve as a guide to law-related documents perceived to be most useful for law school depository librarians.
Bibliographic Systems of the Soviet Republics:
Moldavia and Tajikistan
HAROLD M. LEICH
The article covers the bibliographic systems of the Moldavian and Tajik Soviet So- cialist Republics, two of the non-Russian republics of the U.S.S.R. After briefly discussing the two-level system of current national enumerative bibliography found at present in the Soviet Union, it describes the overlap of bibliographic coverage at the two levels, and indicates what is unique and significant about the bibliographic de- scription and indexing activities performed at the republic level. While only two Soviet republics are discussed, the general patterns of bibliographic control observed in Moldavia and Tajikistan are applicable to other Soviet republics as well. The article also discusses the general availability of the bibliographic publications from Moldavia and Tajikistan in library collections outside the U.S.S.R.
This section presents techniques, practices, and specific strategies by which doc- uments collections can be made more effective. It also highlights individual documents collections and addresses issues pertinent to forthcoming government policies and regulations.
Many law libraries have become selective depository libraries under provision of Public Law 95-261 passed on April 17, 1978. The Law Library at Southern Illinois University is one such selective depository library. The decision about whether to integrate or separate documents is usually based on the local situation, and the decision of this library to integrate depository documents into the collec- tion was made after reviewing local library factors. This article describes the practices of managing an integrated documents collection including technical processing of paper and microfiche documents, collection development and maintenance, and reference service.
Sarah Holterhoff, documents librarian at the Valparaiso University School of Law Library, received a MALS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a bachelor's degree in education from Ohio State University.
Timothy Kearley is Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois College of Law Library. He is also Associate Director of the library and is responsible for the foreign, comparative, and international law collections. Mr. Kearley has published articles on European Community documenta- k tion, is a contributing editor to the International Journal of Legal Information, and is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries' Foreign, Comparative and Inter- national Law Committee.
Harold M. Leich is Slavic Acquisitions Librarian and Associate Professor of Library Administration at the Slavic and East European Library, University of Illinois at Ur- bana/Champaign. He holds an A.B. degree in Anthropology from Dartmouth College and Master's degrees in Linguistics and Librarianship from the University of Illinois. His recent research has focused on publishing and bibliography in the USSR, the non-Slavic nationalities of the USSR, and the description and evaluation of Slavic and Soviet library Collections at American libraries.
Harold C. Relyea is a Specialist in American National Government with the Congres- Sional Research Service, Library of Congress. A member of the Editorial Board of Government Information Quarterly, his professional writing has appeared in various scholarly journals as well as congressional literature. His books include The Presidency and Information Policy (I 98 1), Freedom of Information Trends in the Information Age (1983), and Striking a Balance: National Securiiy and Scientific Freedom (1985).
Heija B. Ryoo, acquisitions/serials librarian at Southern Illinois University's School of Law Library, received her M.L.S. degree from Indiana University in 1980. She is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries and Mid-America Association of Law Libraries, and has written "Word/Data Processing Applications for the Law Li- brary, " Law Library Journal (1981).