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Special Section: Freedom of Information Developments around the World

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

Articles
John E. Pemberton
Public Access to Parliamentary Information:
The British Example ...................................................................................... 89

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

Columns

Sandra K. Faull
Opinions ......................................................................................... 127

Thomas Bloch
Central America ......................................................................................... 131

David C. Heisser
Book Reviews ........................................................................................ 135

Number 2

Special Section: State Government Information Sources

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

Articles

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

Articles
Athan G. Theoharis
The National Archives and FBI Records ........................................................................................ 251

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

Columns

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

Special Issue: Government Mapping

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 ......................................................................................... 395

Christine S. Windheuser
Government Mapping in the Developing Countries .................................................................................. 405

Columns
Sandra K. Faull
Opinions ......................................................................................... 411

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

Columns
John V. Richardson, Jr.
Theses in Documents ............................................................................................. 479

Sandra K. Faull
Opinions ........................................................................................ 483

Bruce Morton
Book Reviews .......................................................................................... 487

Number 6

Notable Documents Section

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 .......................................................................................... 583

Marian Shaaban and Vida Margaitis
United Nations and Other International
Organizations ............................................................................................. 597

Category Index ......................................................................................... 625

Contents and Author Index for Volume ....................................................................................... 629

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