Government Information Quarterly Contents

Government Information Quarterly

Volume 6, Number 2, 1989

CONTENTS

Discussion Forum:
Initiation of A User Fee Program by Federal Agencies
Richard Laska ................................................... 113

SPECIAL ISSUE
SYMPOSIUM ON THE U. S. OFFICE Of TECHNOLOGY
ASSESMENT REPORT:
INFORMING THE NATION: FEDERAL INFORMATION
DISSEMINATION IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE

Charles R. McClure
Guest Editor

Editor's Introduction
Charles R. McClure ........................................................129

Introduction: The Need for Action
Prudence S. Adler ................................................ 131

A Basis for Increasing Public Access to Federal
Electronic Information
Harold B. Shill ..........................................................................135

Were All the Right Questions Posed?
Are These the Right Answers?
Donald H. Hagen ................................................ 143

Articulating a Compelling Reason to Take Action
Kathleen Heim .................................................. 149

Can Congress Take the Necessary Steps to Ensure
an "Informed Nation?"
Bob Hanson ..................................................... 153

National Information Policy: The Broader Context
Melvin S. Day ...................................................................................159

The Report as an Impetus for Action
Charles R. McClure .............................................. 165

SPECIAL FEATURES

A Sort Procedure for the Superintendent
of Documents Classification
Bert R. Boyce, J. Stuart Douglass and Lloyd J. Rabalais ................. 175

ERIC: The Past, Present, and Future Federal
Role in Education Dissemination
Sharon K. Horn and Stephen K. Clements ........................... 183

Formulating an Integrated Library Government
Documents Collection Policy
Stanley P. Hodge, Diane Calvin and Galen E. Rike .................... 199

Contributors ........................................................ 215

Reviews
David C. Heisser, Editor

Congressional Publications and Proceedings:
Research on Legislation, Budgets, and Treaties
By Jerrold Zwirn Reviewed by Charles R. McClure ................................... 219

Control of Information in the United States:
An Annotated Bibliography
By James R. Bennet
Reviewed by Ted Samore ......................................... 220

Encyclopedia of Public Affairs Information Sources
Edited by Paul Wasserman, James R. Kelly, and Desider L. Vikor
Reviewed by Christina J. Woo ..................................... 221

The KGB and the Library Target, 1962-Present
Reviewed by Cynthia E. Bower ..............................................222

Listening to the Enemy: Key Documents on the Role of
Communications Intelligence in the War With Japan
Edited by Ronald H. Spector
Reviewed by William L. Olbrich, Jr . ................................. 223

Political Handbook of the World
Edited by Arthur S. Banks
Reviewed by Deborah Mongeau ................................... 224

Soviet Military Power: The Pentagon's Propaganda
Document, Annotated and Corrected
By Tom Gervasi
Reviewed by Herbert Somers ...................................... 224

Tapping the Government Grapevine
Edited by Judith Schiek Robinson
Reviewed by Peter Hernon ........................................ 225

Vital Statistics on American Politics
By Harold W. Stanley and Richard G. Niemi
Reviewed by Jim Walsh ............................................ 227

List of Titles Received ................................................. 227

A Sort Procedure for
the Superintendent of
Documents Classification

BERT R. BOYCE, J. STUART DOUGLASS, AND LLOYD J.
RABALAIS

This article describes a procedure for creating sort keys for sorting items with the notation of the Superintendent of Documents Classification Scheme. The algorithm was successfully tested on five small files of SuDoc numbers. Because there is no clear agreement on the rule system to be followed for the filing of items by SuDoc numbers, the article provides a basis for discussion.

ERIC: The Past, Present, and
Future Federal Role in
Education Dissemination

SHARON K. HORN AND STEPHEN K. CLEMENTS

The federally-sponsored Educational Resources Information Center, or ERIC, has, for over 20 years, been the major repository for research and practice-oriented information about education. Millions of scholars, teachers, and others have used the materials in this database, though few of them may have been aware of the various aspects of the entire ERIC system. This article summarizes the development of that system, examines some of the changes that are currently being made in it, and speculates briefly about its future.

Formulating an Integrated Library
Government Documents Collection Policy

STANLEY P. HODGE, DIANE CALVIN
AND GALEN E. RIKE

U. S. government documents usually comprise an important portion of academic library collections because they contain a wealth of resource material in a broad spectrum of subject disciplines. All too frequently, however, government documents collections are underutilized by faculty and students, overlooked by librarians as resources that support academic programs, and are developed independently of overall library collection building policies. This article offers suggestions for developing a collection policy that promotes the integration of government documents into an academic library's overall collection management objectives.

Contributors

Prudence S. Adler is an Assistant Project Director at the Office of Technology Assessment, U. S. Congress. She is a graduate of the George Washington University and received a M.L.S. and M.A. in American History from the Catholic University of America. Ms. Adler is a member of the GPO Depository Library Council.

Bert R. Boyce has been a faculty member of the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University for five years, and prior to that spent eleven years on the faculty of the School of Library and Inforination Science of the University of Missouri. His research interests have been in the areas of information science and the education of information scientists and library automation specialists.

Diane Calvin, Government Publications Librarian at Ball State University, received her B.S. and M.L.S. degrees from Emporia (Kansas) State University. Previously, she was Government Publications Librarian at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva. She is a member of GODORT.

Stephen Clements, a Research Associate with the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, is manager of the Educational Excellence Network, a Washington-based center for information on the education refonn movement. Before assuming his present position, he served as a research associate in the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Prior to his stint in the Education Department, he was a graduate student and research assistant at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Melvin S. Day is a veteran manager of government information programs. He has served as Director, National Technical Information Service; Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine; Head, Office of Science Information Service, NSF; Director, Scientific and Technical Information Division, NASA; Director, Technical Information Service, USAEC; and Chairman of COSATI and many other governmental and international comniittees.

J. Stuart Douglass is a graduate of the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University where he is currently a research associate serving as coordinator of computer resources. He is also a student in the Ph.D. program in computer science.

Donald H. Hagen is Director of Bernan Associates and UNIPUB, two separate divisions of the Kraus-Thomson Organization. Bernan Associates is the largest private distributor of Government Printing Office publications and the publisher of Bernan Associates' Government Publication News. UNIPUB is the exclusive distributor of publications for UNESCO, FAO, GATT, and IAEA; as well as the sole official North American agent for Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Previously, Mr. Hagen was General Manager of Questel Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of the French online electronic service. He also spent five years as a Technical Information Specialist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Bob Hanson is Vice President of Marketing for LEGI-SLATE, the Washington Post Company's online service covering Congress and the Federal Register.

Kathleen Heim is Dean of the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University. While President of the Association for Library and Information Science Education in 1987 she facilitated the organization's membership in the Coalition of Government Information. While editor of RQ from 1982-1987 she instituted a column on "Government Information" aimed toward the general reference provider audience. A former documents librarian (1972-1976) and teacher of government information (1978- 1983), Heim has been persistent in fostering the integration of documents knowledge in all aspects of library service.

Stanley P. Hodge, Director of Collections Development and Associate Professor of. Library Service at Ball State University, received his M.L.S. from Case Western Reserve University and M.P.A. from Texas A&M University. His previous publications include co-editorship of, and essays in, Selection of Library Materials in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences, and articles in several library journals. Mr. Hodge has been active on several committees in RTSD, serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of Library Administration, and teaches a course on building library collections for Indiana University's School of Library and Information Science.

Sharon Kinney Horn, a Supervisory Research Analyst at the U.S. Department of Education, is the Director of Educational Information Resources Division in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). Prior to her present position, she was responsible for completing the ERIC Redesign study. She came to the National Institute of Education in 1982 as the Associate Director of Education Policy & Organization. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Texas.

Charles R. McClure completed his Ph.D. in Library and Information Service from Rutgers University, is currently Professor at Syracuse University, School of Information Studies, and has written extensively on topics related to government information. His recent book, co-authored with Peter Hemon, Federal Information Policies in the 1980's (Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1987), was the recipient of the American Society for Information Science best book of the year award in 1988.

Lloyd J. Rabalais is a student in the Library and Information Science--Systems Science Joint Master's program at Louisiana State University. He is also a research assistant in the School of Library and Information Science.

Galen E. Rike is Head of General Collections and Associate Professor of Library Service at Ball State University Libraries. Previously, he was Govemment Publications Librarian and a library school instructor. He has a B.A. from Ashland College, Ashland, OH, a M.S. from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from Florida State University. Dr. Rike worked in several state library agencies before coming to Ball State University.

Harold B. Shill heads the Evansdale Library and is Associate Professor of Library Science at West Virginia University. He has testified before congressional committees on four occasions, is a past chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries' Legislation Committee, and has served as Federal Relations Coordinator for the West Virginia Library Association since 1983.