


Number 1

Harold C. Relyea and Tom Riley
Introduction
............................................................................................
1
Ulf Lundvik
The Public's Assess to Official Documents in
Sweden: The Rules and their Consequences
.......................................................................................
3
Bertil Wennergren
Freedom of Information in Nordic Countries:
Recent Developments
...........................................................................................
11
Harold C. Relyea
The Rise and Pause of the U.S. Freedom of
Information Act
.........................................................................................
19
Donald C. Rowat
The French Law on Access to
Goverment Documents
............................................................................................
35
Alan Missen
The Australian Freedom of Information Act
.........................................................................................
43
John D. McCamus
Freedom of Information in Canada
..........................................................................................
51
James Michael
Official Information Law in the United Kingdom
.....................................................................................
61
Yasuhiro Okudaira
Toward Freedom of Information:
The Japanese Case
.........................................................................................
71
Tom Riley
Freedom of Information Acts:
A Comparative Perspective
........................................................................................
81
Alice Harrison Bahr
Reclassifying to the Superintendent of Documents
Classification System: Some Considerations
....................................................................................
97
M.R. Aderibigbe
Classification of Government Publications in the
University of Lagos Library in Nigeria
.........................................................................................
109
Peter S. Graham
Government Documents and Cataloging in
Research Libraries
...........................................................................................
117
Sandra K. Faull
Opinions
.........................................................................................
127
Thomas Bloch
Central America
.........................................................................................
131
David C. Heisser
Book Reviews
........................................................................................
135

Number 2

Terry L. Weech
Introduction
......................................................................................
135
Margaret T. Lane
Distribution of State Government
Publications
and Information
.........................................................................................
159
Gary R. Purcell
Reference Use of State Government Information in
Public Libraries
..........................................................................................
173
Barbara J. Ford and Yuri Nakata
Reference Use of State Government Information in
Academic Libraries
.......................................................................................
189
Nancy P. Johnson
Reference Use of State Government Information in
Law Libraries
.........................................................................................
201
David W. Parish
Into the 1980s: The Ideal State Document
Reference Collection
.............................................................................................
213
Chi Su Kim
Documentation of Nuclear Power Plant and U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Local Public
Document Rooms
...........................................................................................
221
Peter Hernon and Clayton A. Shepherd
Government Publications Represented in the Social
Sciences Citation Index. An Exploratory Study
.......................................................................................
227
Judith S. Rowe
1980 Census of Population and Housing:
Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS)
.......................................................................................
245

Number 3

Athan G. Theoharis
The CIA and the New York Times:
An Unanswered Question
........................................................................................
257
Harrison E. Salisbury
A Comment on Theoharis' Unanswered Question
...........................................................................................
261
M.R. Aderibigbe
Government Publications in Nigeria:
Problems and Prospects
............................................................................................
263
Terry W. Hartle and Stephen R. Chitwood
Increasing Public Access to Government: The
Implementation and Impact of the Government
in the Sunshine Act
.............................................................................................
269
T. Murray Rankin
The New Canadian Access to Information Act and
Privacy Act: A Critical Annotation
...........................................................................................
285
Sandra K. Faull
Opinions
....................................................................................... 313
John V. Richardson, Jr.
Theses in Documents
............................................................................................
319
Valerie Florance
Federal Publications in Health and Biomedicine:
Consumer Health and Education
..........................................................................................
321

Number 4

Charles A. Seavey
Introduction
...........................................................................................................
327
Linda E. Williamson
A Survey of Cartographic Contributions of
International Governmental Organizations
.............................................................................................
329
Gary W. North
Maps for the Nation: The Current Federal
Mapping Establishment
.............................................................................................
345
Ralph Ehrenberg
Mapping Land, Sea, and Sky:
Federal Cartography from 1775 to 1950
................................................................................. 361
Sandra K. Faull
State and Local Map Publishing
in the United States
................................................................................. 375
David A. Cobb
Current Cartographic Products
of the Western Nations
..........................................................................................
381
Josef W. Konvitz
The National Map Survey
in Eighteenth-Century France
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395
Christine S. Windheuser
Government Mapping in the Developing Countries
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405

Number 5

Richard Allan Baker
Documenting the History of the United States
Senate
........................................................................................
415
Steven Mitchel
Classified Information and Historical Research
.........................................................................................
427
William H. Harader
Need to Know: An Attitude on Public Access
....................................................................................
441
Cheryl A. Price
A Guide to Selected Sources in
Government
Publications for International Banking, Finance
and Foreign Trade
......................................................................................
449
Judith S. Rowe
Administrative Records
as a Source of
Federal Statistics
.................................................................................................
455
Robert Howe
A Bibliographic Guide to
Latin American and
Caribbean
Government Publications on Foreign
Investment, 1965-1981
........................................................................................... 459
Sandra K. Faull
Opinions
........................................................................................
483
Bruce Morton
Book Reviews
.......................................................................................... 487

Number 6

Jeanne E. Boyle
Introduction
....................................................................................... 497
Jeanne E. Boyle, Diane Eidelman, and Helen Hoffman
U.S. Government (Depository Items)
..............................................................................................
499
Fred Schmidt
Technical Reports and
Non-Depository
Publications
........................................................................................ 521
David W. Parish
State Publications
........................................................................................ 531
Ronald J. Heckart
Local Publications
.........................................................................................
547
Virginia Gillham and Judith A. Drake
Canada
.......................................................................................
553
Eudora Loh and W. David Rozkuszha
Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America
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583
Marian Shaaban and Vida Margaitis
United Nations and Other International
Organizations
............................................................................................. 597
Category Index ......................................................................................... 625
Contents and Author Index for Volume ....................................................................................... 629
