A brief history of the federal depository library program: A personal perspective

Journal of Government Information

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 369-380

  Kessler Jr , Ridley R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depository libraries; Electronic information; Federal depository library program; Government information policy; Information access

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030191530     PISSN: 13520237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-0237(96)00017-2     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. 1. "Resolution for the Printing and Distribution of an Additional Number of the Journals of Congress, and of the Documents Published Under Their Order" (27 December 1813), 3 U.S. Statutes at Large, 140-41.
2. 2. U.S. Congress, Senate, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-1989 (Bicentennial Edition), 100th Cong., 2d sess., 1989. S. Doc. 34, serial 13849, 1645-46. For resolution 1 see House Journal, 13th Cong., 2d sess., 10 December 1813, 30-31.
3. 2. U.S. Congress, Senate, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-1989 (Bicentennial Edition), 100th Cong., 2d sess., 1989. S. Doc. 34, serial 13849, 1645-46. For resolution 1 see House Journal, 13th Cong., 2d sess., 10 December 1813, 30-31.
4. 3. Madison to W. T. Barry, 4 August 1822, The Writings of James Madison, Volume IX, 1819-1836, ed. Gaillard Hunt (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910), 103.
5. 4. "A Resolution Respecting the Distribution of Certain Public Documents" (28 January 1857), 11 U.S. Statutes at Large, 253.
6. 5. "Joint Resolution Respecting the Distribution of Certain Public Documents" (20 March 1858), 11 U.S. Statutes at Large, 368; "An Act Providing for Keeping and Distributing All Public Documents" (5 February 1859), 11 U.S. Statutes at Large, 379-81.
7. 5. "Joint Resolution Respecting the Distribution of Certain Public Documents" (20 March 1858), 11 U.S. Statutes at Large, 368; "An Act Providing for Keeping and Distributing All Public Documents" (5 February 1859), 11 U.S. Statutes at Large, 379-81.
8. 6. "An Act Providing for Keeping and Distributing All Public Documents" (5 February 1859).
9. 7. "An Act Providing for the Public Printing and Binding and the Distribution of Public Documents" (12 January 1895), 28 U.S. Statutes at Large, 601.
10. 8. "An Act Making Appropriations for the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Expenses of the Government for the Year Ending the Thirtieth of June, Eighteen Hundred and Seventy - Superintendent of Public Documents to be Appointed" (3 March 1869), 15 U.S. Statutes at Large, 292.
11. 9. "An Act Providing for the Public Printing and Binding and the Distribution of Public Documents" (12 January 1895), 601-24.
12. 10. "An Act Providing for the Public Printing and Binding and the Distribution of Public Documents" (12 January 1895), 610.
13. 11. "An Act Providing for the Public Printing and Binding and the Distribution of Public Documents" (12 January 1895), 620.
14. 12. "An Act to Revise the Laws Relating to Depository Libraries" (PL 87-579, 9 August 1961), 76 U.S. Statutes at Large, 352-56.
15. 13. Joe Morehead and Mary Fetzer, Introduction to United States Government Information Sources, 4th ed. (Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1992), 70.
16. 14. Joanne Zich, "GPO Microfiche in Depository Libraries," Microform Review 17, no. 3 (August 1988):137-41.
17. 15. Judy E. Myers, "The Government Printing Office Cataloging Records: Opportunities and Problems," Government Information Quarterly 2, no. 1 (1985):27-56.
18. 16. For example see: Gary Cornwell and Thomas Kinney, "Guide to Integrating Machine Readable Cataloging Records for Government Documents into the Online Catalog," in Use of Technology in Depository Libraries: A Practitioner's Perspective, ed. Peter Hernon and Jan Swanbeck (Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1992); Gary Cornwell and Thomas Kinney, "GPO Cataloging Records in the Online Catalog: Implications for the Reference Librarian," The Reference Librarian 32 (1991):259-274; and Gary Cornwell, Report and Recommendations of the Government Documents Cataloging Committee on Retrospective GPO Cataloging Records, University of Florida Libraries (August, 1988).
19. 16. For example see: Gary Cornwell and Thomas Kinney, "Guide to Integrating Machine Readable Cataloging Records for Government Documents into the Online Catalog," in Use of Technology in Depository Libraries: A Practitioner's Perspective, ed. Peter Hernon and Jan Swanbeck (Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1992); Gary Cornwell and Thomas Kinney, "GPO Cataloging Records in the Online Catalog: Implications for the Reference Librarian," The Reference Librarian 32 (1991):259-274; and Gary Cornwell, Report and Recommendations of the Government Documents Cataloging Committee on Retrospective GPO Cataloging Records, University of Florida Libraries (August, 1988).
20. 16. For example see: Gary Cornwell and Thomas Kinney, "Guide to Integrating Machine Readable Cataloging Records for Government Documents into the Online Catalog," in Use of Technology in Depository Libraries: A Practitioner's Perspective, ed. Peter Hernon and Jan Swanbeck (Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1992); Gary Cornwell and Thomas Kinney, "GPO Cataloging Records in the Online Catalog: Implications for the Reference Librarian," The Reference Librarian 32 (1991):259-274; and Gary Cornwell, Report and Recommendations of the Government Documents Cataloging Committee on Retrospective GPO Cataloging Records, University of Florida Libraries (August, 1988).
21. 17. Morehead, Government Information Resources, 73.
22. 18. "An Act to Establish in the Government Printing Office a Means of Enhancing Electronic Public Access to a Wide Range of Federal Electronic Information" (PL103-40, 8 June 1993), 107 U.S. Statutes at Large, 112.
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24. 20. James B. Adler, "Publishers, Libraries, and the Future Use of Government Information," Government Publications Review 9, no. 2 (1982):88.
25. 21. Administrative Notes 16, no. 17 (1995):16-18.
26. 22. U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Appropriations, Legislative Branch Appropriations, 1996, 104th Cong., 1st sess., 1995, S. Rept. 114, 48.
27. 23. Legislative Branch Appropriations, 1996, 48-49.
28. 24. Legislative Branch Appropriations, 1996, 49.
29. 25. U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1996, and for Other Purposes, 104th Cong., 1st sess., 1995, H. Rept. 212, 5.
30. 26. Susan Tulis, "Depository Library Council Meeting, October 16-18, 1995," Virginia Library Association Shipping List 22, no. 4 (November, 1995):1-9.
31. 27. Gary Cornwall, Ridley R. Kessler, Jr., Duncan Aldrich, Thomas K. Andersen, Stephen M. Hayes, Jack Sulzer, Susan Tulis, "Problems and Issues Affecting the U.S. Depository Library Program and the GPO: The Librarians' Manifesto," Government Publications Review 20, no. 2 (1993): 121-40.
32. 28. Dupont Circle Group, Discussion Draft Dupont Circle Group (April 28, 1993), distributed to all federal depository libraries.
33. 29. "Reinventing Access to Federal Government Information: Report of the Conference on the Future of Federal Government Information," Administrative Notes 14, no. 24 (November 30,1993):11-29.
34. 30. Administrative Notes 16, no. 17 (1995):18-19.
35. 31. American Association of Law Libraries Newsletter 27, no. 1 (September, 1995):14. Mary Alice Baish, the Assistant Washington Affairs Representative for the American Association of Law Librarians (AALL), was a major contributor to the success of these meetings as an operator and patient councilor.
36. 32. GOVDOC-L is an interactive e-mail based discussion list for those interested in government information. Depository issues make up a large part of the discussion.
37. 33. Anne Watts, St. Louis Public Library, telephone conversation with author, 19 March 1996.