Supporting performance objective 19 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on maintaining news files are included in this packet. (The packet is the ninth in a set of nine on maintaining files and a library--CE 016 939 947.) the student materials include information on developing news files, a check-out activity, and an instructor's final checklist to evaluate the student's performance. The instructor's manual includes directions for administering the check-out activity. The materials are designed. for self-paced individual instruction and may be adapted for use with large groups. (A separate booklet--CE 016 911--lists contents for the nine packets in this set along with those in several other sets--seventy-eight packets in all--based on the same V-TECS catalog.) (JT)