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Government Information Quarterly Contents

Government Information Quarterly

Volume 4, Number 4, 1987 (index)

CONTENTS

Discussion Forum:
The Right to Know
The Need to Act
Eileen D. Cooke and Anne A. Heaune ............................... 343

Public Affairs Feature
Federal Information Policy:
Protecting the Free Flow of Information
George E. Brown, Jr . ............................................. 349

Public Affairs Feature
National Security and Information Technology:
The New Regulatory Option?
Manley R. Irwin ................................................. 359

Accessibility to News:
Sources of Information for Japanese Politicians
Ofer Feldman ................................................... 371

Depository Library Collections
and Services in an Electronic Age:
A Review of the Literature
Peter Hernon .......................................................383

Reviews
David C. Heisser, Editor

Academic Library Use of NTIS:
Suggestions for Services and Core Collection
Prepared by Charles R. McClure and Peter Hernon
Reviewed by Sandra McAninch .................................... 399

CIS Index to Unpublished U.S. Senate Committee Hearings and
Microfiche Collection, 18th Congress-88th Congress, 1823-1964
Reviewed by Myrtle Smith Bolner ................................................401

Datamap 1986: Index of Published Tables of Statistical Data
Edited by Jarol B. Manheim and Allison Ondrasik
Reviewed by Fran Hassencahl ......................................................... 403

Govemment Corporations, Special Districts, and
Public Authorities, Their Organization and Management:
A Selected Annotated Bibliography
By Xenia W. Dustin
Reviewed by Katina Strauch ...................................................................... 405

Govemment Reference Books 84/85:
A Biennial Guide to U.S. Govemment Publications
9th Biennial Volume
Compiled by LeRoy C. Schwarzkopf
Reviewed by Nancy Macomber .................................................................... 406

A Guide to Selected Federal Agency Programs and
Publications for Libraries and Teachers
By Carol Smallwood
Reviewed by Sharon Anderson ......................................................... 407

Guide to U.S. Govemment Publications, 1986 edition
Edited by John L. Androit
Reviewed by Paul W. Thurston ..................................................................408

Guide to U.S. Govemment Statistics
Edited by Donna Androit, Jay Androit, and Laurie Androit
Reviewed by Robert V. Williams .................................................................... 410 The Presidency, A Research Guide
By Robert U. Goehlert and Fenton S. Martin
Reviewed by W. Landis Jones .............................................................................. 411

The Restrictive Effects of Govemment Information Policies
on Scholarship and Research, Minutes of the
107th Meeting, October 23-24, 1985 Washington, D.C.
Reviewed by Sandra K. Peterson ..........................................................413

Union List of African Censuses,
Development Plans and Statistical Abstracts
Compiled by Victoria K. Evalds
Reviewed by Gloria D. Westfall ................................................................... 414

List of Titles Received..............................................................................415

Contributors ................................................................................................417

Index/Volume 4 ..........................................................................421

PUBLIC AFFAIRS FEATURE

Federal Information Policy:
Protecting the Free Flow of Information
GEORGE E. BROWN, JR.

Federal information policy is a tangled web, woven over many decades and one which tends to trap information, rather than making it easily available. Although some of the difficulty has been caused by a lack of coherence and by some confusion among members of the Congress, the principal difficulty recently has been the lack of trust exhibited by the Reagan administration. If the United States is to regain its economic and technological health, a well-thought-out and administered Federal information policy will be the cornerstone to those ends. An informed electorate can help by assisting Congress with ideas regarding needs, both present and future. Together with an informed administration, we can, and must, create the Federal information policy that meets all our needs without jeopardizing our national security.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS FEATURE

National Security and Information Technology:
The New Regulatory Option?
 MANLEY R. IRWIN

In examining national security as a new rationale for government regulation, this article summarizes recent developments in research and development, telecommunication services, telephone manufacturing, telecommunication networks, information processing, and U.S. import/export policy. It concludes that regulation as a policy strategy turns on how one defines national security.

Accessibility to News:
Sources of Information for
Japanese Politicians
 OFER FELDMAN

This article identifies sources of information for Japanese members of parliament (Diet). It focuses on four main sources that Dietmen often use-the news media, colleagues, bureaucrats, and newsmen-based on interviews conducted with politicians. Politicians differ in their use of certain channels, along lines of parliamentarian experience, the nature of contact they have with sources, and whether they belong to the ruling party or the opposition. The significant finding is that Diet members attributed much importance to the information they obtain from news reporters.

Depository Library Collections
and Services in an Electronic Age:
A Review of the Literature
 PETER HERNON

This article examines the literature that discusses technological applications for the collections and services of GPO depository libraries. It identifies areas treated in the literature and topics for further writing and research. The purpose is to present a collection of basic readings and a framework for viewing a growing body of literature.

Contributors

George E. Brown, Jr. was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 1962 (88th Congress) from Califomia's 29th District, and reelected to the 89th through 9 1 st Congresses.He was again elected in November 1972 (93d Congress) from Califomia's 36th District and has served continuously since then. He as served as Chair of the House Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research and Foreign Agriculture; and the Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Research of the House Committee on Science and Technology. He is the current Chair of the Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation and Materials. He is also a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Technology Assessment Board (which provides oversight to the Office of Technology Assessment). He has been the Mayor of the city of Monterey Park, California (1955-1956) and a member of the California State Assembly. Congressman Brown, who holds a B.A. degree in industrial physics from UCLA, has long had a deep interest in scientific and technical information.

Eileen D. Cooke, American Library Association, Associate Executive Director, has been Director of the ALA Washington Office since 1972. She came to the office in 1964 as Assistant Director after serving as Public Relations Specialist for the Minneapolis Public Library (Minnesota).

Ofer Feldman, a visiting researcher in the Faculty of Law and Politics in Keio University, received his Ph. D. from the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Tokyo. In 1982-1983, he was a research student at the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Tokyo, under the scholarship of the Japanese Ministry of Education.

Anne A. Heanue, Associate Director of the American Library Association Washington Office, is the author of Less Access to Less lnformation By and about the U.S. Govemment. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Catholic University of America.

Peter Hernon, professor at Simmons College, Boston, teaches courses relating to government information, evaluation of library services, and research methods. He is the author of 18 books and over 60 articles. His latest book (co-authored with Charles R. McClure) is Federal Information Policies in the 1980's (Ablex, 1987). He is also editor of Govemment Information Quarterly.

Manley R. Irwin is a Professor of Economics, Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University and has widely written in the field of antitrust, regulation, telecommunication technology, and public policy. He has served with the U.S. Senate, the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau, and as a consultant to the President's Task Force on Communications Policy. Irwin lectures in the Far East, North America, and Europe. His latest book is titled Telecommunications America: Markets Without Boundaries (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985).