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Special Issue: Collection Development for Government Publications

Peter Hernon and Gary R. Purcell
Introduction .................................................................................................. 1

Charles R. McClure
An Integrated Approach to Government
Publications Collection Development ....................................................................................... 5

Charles A. Seavey
Collection Development for Government
Map Collections .............................................................................................. 17

Gary R. Purcell
U.S. Government Publication Collection
Development for Non-Depository Libraries ..................................................................................... 31

Terry L. Weech
Collection Development and State
Publications ....................................................................................... 47

Michael 0. Shannon
Collection Development and Local
Documents: History and Present Use in
the United States ........................................................................ 59

Peter I.Hajnal
Collection Development: United Nations
Material ............................................................................................. 89

William C. Robinson
Evaluation of the Government Documents
Collection: An Introduction and Overview ................................................................................. 111

Charles R. McClure, Vickie W. Phillips
and John B. Phillips
 Microformatted Government Publications ...................................................................... 127

Judith S. Rowe and Constance F. Citro
 Machine-Readable Data Files of Government
Publications ..................................................................................... 135

Howard F. Coxon
Developments in Australia ....................................................................................... 141

William J. Barrett
Superintendent of Documents Briefs ............................................................................................. 145

David C. Heisser
Book Reviews ......................................................................................... 151

Number 3

Bernard M. Fry and Peter Hernon
Editorial .................................................................................................. 159

Gloria Westfall
Access to French Government
Publications ........................................................................................ 161

Jerrold Zwirn
Congressional Debate ....................................................................... 175

Bruce Morton
An Items Record Management System:
First Step in the Automation of
Collection Development in Selective
GPO Depository Libraries ..................................................................................... 185

Jules Lariviere
Canadian Official Publications at the
National Library of Canada ................................................................................. 197

Carol Ann Singer
Federal Information Centers: Providing
Access to the Government .................................................................................... 203

Nicholas Henry
Federal Information Dissemination
Policy: Mini-Solutions to Maxi-Problems ................................................................................. 207

Dudley Melichar
Government Documents Dissemination
with Special Reference to the Field of
Criminal Justice: A Dilemma? ................................................................................. 209

Margery J. McCauley
Information Policy and the National
Audiovisual Center ....................................................................................... 215

John C. Beresford and Deborah S. Pomerance
Statistical Documents .................................................................................... 221

Joe Morehead and Judy Myers
Opinions ......................................................................................................... 231

Charles R. McClure
Microformatted Government Publications ...................................................................................... 235

John Jeffries
Information Retrieval from European
Documentation Centres ............................................................................................ 241

Howard Coxon
Australian Publications .................................................................................................... 245

John V. Richardson, Jr.
Theses in Documents .................................................................................... 249

Judith S. Rowe
Machine-Readable Data Files of
Government Publications ................................................................................................. 251

David C. Heisser
Book Reviews ........................................................................................... 259

Number 4

Special Issue: Archival Sources of Government Information

Nancy E. Peace
Introduction .................................................................................. 283

Trudy Huskamp Peterson
Documents in Time: The Archives of
the United States and the National
Archives and Records Service ................................................................................. 285

Patricia Aronsson
Congressional Records as Archival
Sources .......................................................................................... 295

F. Gerald Ham
Wisconsin: Governmental Archives in
an Academic Environment .................................................................................... 303

Christopher P. Bickford
Public Records and the Private
Historical Society ..................................................................................... 311

R. Scott James
Administration of Municipal Records:
The Toronto Experience ... 321

Virginia Gillham
Opinions ...................................................................................................... 337

Judith S. Rowe
Machine-Readable Data Files of
Government Publications ..................................................................................... 343

Charles R. McClure and Robert Swisher
Microformatted Government Publications .................................................................................... 353

John V. Richardson Jr.
Theses in Documents .................................................................................................... 361

David C. Heisser
Book Reviews .................................................................................................. 367

Number 5

Howard Coxon
The Freedom of Information Debate
in Australia ............................................................................................ 373

Dianne Newell
Published Government Documents as a
Source for Interdisciplinary History ............................................................................................ 381

Monique Legere
Bibliographic Control of Official
Documents and Publications in the
Canadian International Agency's
Development Information Centre ........................................................................................... 395

Edgar C. Bailey, Jr.
Access to Federal Documents in
Small, Non-Depository Academic
Libraries ............................................................................................ 405

Virginia Gillham
In-House Procedures in a Library
Using CODOC ............................................................................................. 411

Letters to the Editor ........................................................................................... 417

R. L. Cope
Opinions ............................................................................................. 423

John V. Richardson Jr.
Theses in Documents ............................................................................................... 433

David C. Heisser
Book Review ............................................................................................ 435

Number 6

Special Issue: Western America: A View of Government and Archival Sources

Michael L. Tate
Introduction ........................................................................................... 449

Richmond L. Clow
United States Government Documents and
Great Plains Agriculture: A Select Guide .............................................................................................. 453

Richard A. Overfield
State Agricultural Experiment Stations
and the Development of the West, 1887-1920;
A Look at the Sources ...................................................................................... 463

William P. Corbett
Resources for Modern Highway Development:
Oklahoma as a Case Study .......................................................................................... 473

Jerold Simmons
The County Courthouse as an Archives: Local
Government Sources for the History of the
Central Plains ........................................................................................... 485

Michael L. Tate
Red Power: Government Publications and the
Rising Indian Activism of the 1970s ........................................................................................ 499

John E. Pemberton
Opinions .................................................................................................... 519

David C. Heisser
Book Reviews ................................................................................................. 523

Announcement ............................................................................................... 530

Volume 8B (1981)

ACQUISTIONS GUIDE
to significant government publications at all levels

Part B of Volume 8 is a four-number addition to this volume.
It covers the following categories (not all in each number):

++ U.S. Government (Depository Items)

++ Technical Reports and Other Non-GPO Documents

++ United States Government Audiovisuals

++ State Publications

++ Local Publications

++ Canada

++ Australia

++ United Nations and Other International Organizations

++ Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America

++ Category Index

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