Describes the services offered by the National Cartographic Information Center and reviews the types of maps available from federal and state governments, local and regional agencies, and commercial and private publishers. Appendices contain a list of supplementary literature and names, addresses, and phone numbers of relevant government agencies…

Discusses information policy in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Topics include access to government records, including Freedom of Information Act issues; removing or expanding information on government Web sites; state actions; coordination versus secrecy in homeland security; and patterns and trends in federal and state…

Discusses the impact of technological change on those chapters of Title 44 of the "United States Code" that provide the statutory framework for the Government Printing Office, including document sales and depository library distribution. It is argued that legislative action is urgently needed to resolve dissemination issues and to set…

Examines the evolution of Canadian government information policy from the early 1960s to the present day and considers how the changes made to merge the concepts of the public's right to government information and information as a commodity have resulted in a policy that leaves much to individual interpretation. (Contains 81 notes/references.)…

Points out the availability of a wide range of information useful to business students (business statistics, information on international business, and entrepreneurship) available in federal government depository libraries. (SR)

The sixth National Education Goal is to make every school in America free of drugs and violence and offer a disciplined environment for learning. Crime, violence, and discipline problems in public schools are increasing public concerns. Although it is difficult to assess the extent of these problems in public schools, reports suggest the situation…

The Intergovernmental Records Project (IRP) was established by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to facilitate the exchange of information about federal records. This report focuses on six categories of intergovernmental records targeted by the IRP for description in the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) national…

Developed for use in the library and in government documents classes, this paper provides instruction in the identification and location of U.S. government publications in a specific depository library. The importance of government documents is noted. An explanation of the Superintendent of Documents (SuDoc) classification scheme as found in the…

This booklet presents a complete transcript of the hearings on medicine and aging of the Senate Committee on Aging. Testimony from a number of experts in gerontology is presented. A wide range of topics is dealt with, including social attitudes toward aging, current medical training and practices, and the need for research about the aging process.…

Many agencies of the Executive Branch of the federal government have at one time or another claimed an absolute right to wihhold any information they chose from anyone they chose. These claims have produced the Freedom of Information Act, which imposes some limitations on this absolute power. Recently, some members of Congress have become…

This pamphlet is designed to help science and engineering managers in Government laboratories understand the relevant features and flexibilities of the Federal personnel system. The various sections deal with staff recruitment procedures, academic qualifications for each entering grade, short term appointments, the Federal pay system, position…

Materials on environmental pollution published by the various offices of the federal government are presented in this select bibliography. Limited in scope to publications on air, water, and land pollution, the document is designed to serve teachers and researchers working in the field of environmental problems who wish reference to public…

This bulletin presents a list of publications of the United States Bureau of Education for the years 1867 to 1907, prepared under the direction of the present librarian of the Bureau. This list is intended to make the publications of the Bureau better known and to facilitate their use. It should be of service to librarians and to students of…

Identifies problematic points in the transfer of information from government to library to user, and discusses government accountability, survey results concerning publications being cataloged, use studies, the conversion of Government Printing Office publications to microformat, and federal economizing measures. Fourteen references are cited.…