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JOURNAL OF
GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 5
Number 1
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JOURNAL OF
GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
Number 1
Barbara E. Smith
British Official Publications - 2. Publication and Distribution ..................................................... 1
Chin Kim and
Frederic E. Mansfield Jr
European Communities Official Documents:
One Library's Experience ...................................................................................... 13
Peter Hernon
Academic Library Reference Service for the Publications of
Municipal, State, and Federal Government; a Historical
Perspective Spanning the Years up to 1962 ........................................................ 31
Howard Coxon
Some Recent Australian Federal Government Commissions
of Inquiry and Their Reports ........................................................................... 51
Marvin C. Guilfoyle and
Irma Tomberlin
Government Documents Practicum: Completing the Basic
Education .............................................................................................................. 57
Selection Guide to High Interest
Government Publications .............................................................................................. 61
Special Announcement ................................................................................................. 63
Joyce Koch and
Beverly Railsback
I. Primary Agency Publications
U.S. Government (Depository Items) ............................................................................... 67
Fred Schmidt
Technical Reports and Other Non-GPO Documents .............................................................. 75
David Parish
State Government ....................................................................................... 81
Joyce Malden
Municipal Government ..................................................................................... 89
John E. Pemberton
Great Britain .............................................................................................................. 93
Howard F. Coxon
Australian Government Publications ................................................................ 95
Marian Shaaban and
Barbara Silvernail
United Nations and Other International Agencies .................................................. 99
Gloria Westfall and Gail Nichols
Western Europe and Other Countries ........................................................... 107
Category Index to Part I ........................................................................................117
Ronald Haselhuhn
II. Reference Materials
Book Reviews ...................................................................... 119
Frederic O'Hara
Views and Over-Views on/of U.S. Government Documents ........................................... 123
Harry Welsh
What's New in Documents .................................................................................... 129
Number 2
LeRoy C. Schwarzkopf
The Depository Library Program and Access
by the Public to Official Publications
of the United States Government ............................................................................... 147
Marc Galbraith
Legislative Intent and Depository
Library Selection
Practices .................................................................................... 157
Carol Boast and Cheryl Nyberg
The Monthly Catalog-- July 1976 - August
1977--
Observations, Evaluations, Congratulations ............................................ 167
Terry L. Weech
The Use of Government Publications:
a Selected Review of the Literature ......................................................................177
David W. Parish
Utilization of a Government Publication Collection
in a Medium Size College Library ................................................................... 185
Arne Richards
Book Reviews .......................................................................................189
Judith S. Rowe
Machine-Readable Data Files
of Government Publications .............................................................................195
Harry Welsh
What's New in Documents ......................................................................... 198
Frederic O'Hara
Views and Over-Views on/of
U.S. Government Documents................................................................................. 207
Selection Guide to High Interest
Government Publications............................................................... 213
John E. Showman
United States Government Audiovisuals ......................................................... 215
David W. Parish
State Government .......................................................................... 223
Her Majesty's Stationery Office
Great Britain .............................................................................. 229
Judith A. Boettger
Canada .............................................................................. 231
Gloria Westfall and Gail Nichols
Western Europe and Other Countries .................................................................. 241
Marian Shaaban and
Barbara Silvernail
U.N. and International Organizations .................................................................. 245
Special Notice ............................................................................... 250
Subject Index to Selection Guide .................................................................... 251
Number 3
George W. Whitbeck,
Peter Hernon and
John Richardson Jr
The Federal Depository Library System:
A Descriptive Analysis .................................................................................... 253
HMSO/Oriel Seminar on Changes in Cataloguing of
British Official Publications ......................................................................... 269
Jon J. Harrison
United States Congressional Publication Indexing:
Statistical Comparisons between the CIS Index and
the Monthly Catalog ................................................................................. 273
Michael L. Tate
Studying the American Indian through Government
Documents and the National Archives ......................................................................... 285
Joel Davis
A Bibliography of Government Documents on Extraterrestrial
Life: 1957 - 1976 ..................................................................... 295
Judy E. Myers and
Helen H. Britton
Government Documents in the Public Card Catalog: The
Iceberg Surfaces ........................................................................ 311
Selection Guide to High Interest
Govemment Publications ................................................................. 315
Beverly Railsback and
Joyce Koch
Depository Items ................................................................................ 317
Fred Schmidt
Technical Reports and Other Non-GPO Publications ......................................... 323
John Showman
Audiovisuals ................................................................................................... 329
David Parish
State Government ........................................................................................ 347
Howard Coxon
Australia ............................................................................................. 353
Gloria Westfall and Gail Nichols
Western Europe and Other Countries ...................................................................... 357
Marian Shaaban and
Barbara Silvernail
United Nations and Other International Organizations .......................................... 361
Category Index to Part I ........................................................................................................... 367
Superintendent of Documents Briefs .............................................................. 369
Book Reviews ........................................................................................ 371
Judith S. Rowe
Government Documents in Machine-Readable Form .............................................379
Charles R. McClure
Microformatted Government Publications .............................................................. 383
John V. Richardson Jr
Theses in Documents ............................................................................ 389
Number 4
Editorial ................................................................................................... i
Frances Rose
Publishing and Information Policies of the Government of
Canada: Some Recent Developments ........................................................................391
Stephen Richard
The Publications of British National Para-Governmental
Organisations ......................................................................................... 399
Charles R. McClure
Indexing U.S. Government Periodicals: Analysis and
Comments ................................................................................................... 409
Joseph Busch and
Cathy Sagendorf
The Superintendent of Documents' Publications Reference
File (PRF): A Statistical Survey of PRF Citations in OCLC ........................... 423
Michael O. Shannon
Local Legislation and Municipal Law: The New York City
Experience ................................................................................ 431
Peter Hernon
Municipal Publications: A Bibliographic Guide to Library
Literature .......................................................................................... 445
G. A. Alabi
A Study of Publications Growth in Nigeria and the
Importance of These Publications to the Development of
the Country ................................................................................................ 455
Selection Guide to High Interest
Govemment Publications ............................................................................... 461
Part I: Primary Publications
Joyce Koch and
Beverly Railsback
U.S. Government (Depository Items) .................................................................... 463
David W.Parish
State Government ................................................................................................ 469
Virginia Gillham
Canada ...................................................................................................................... 475
Howard Coxon
Australia .................................................................................................................... 481
Gloria Westfall and Gail Nichols
Western Europe and Other Countries ............................................................................... 487
Category Index to Part I .................................................................................................... 491
Book Reviews ..................................................................................................................... 493
Frederic J. O'Hara
Views and Over-Views on/of U.S. Government Documents ............................................. 499
Superintendent of Documents Briefs ................................................................................. 505
Judith S. Rowe
Machine-Readable Data Files of Government Publications .................................................... 507
Charles R. McClure
Microformatted Government Publications ........................................................................... 511
Errata .................................................................................. I
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