U.S. Government

Printing Office

April 1977

Number 21 GP 3.27:21 GPO Microfilm Program

Authorized by Joint

Committee on Printing

In a letter dated March 25, 1977,

addressed to the Public Printer, Mr. Thomas F. McCormick, from the

Chairperson of the Joint Committee

^n Printing, Senator Howard W.

Cannon, authorization was given for the GPO Microform Program. The

text is as follows: "In accordance with and in fur- therance of previous authorizations

of the Joint Committee on Printing,

relative to the response of the Su- perintendent of Documents to the

designated depository libraries pur- suant to the provisions of Chapter

19, title 44, United States Code

Depository Library Program, this is to advise that you are authorized as

follows:

"(1) To convert to microfiche, as necessary and as requested by indi- vidual depository libraries, that

category of publications identified as 'non-GPO documentation.'

"(2) To convert to microfiche, as necessary and as requested by in- dividual depository libraries and

when savings in costs are clearly

demonstrable, that category of publications identified as 'GPO documentation.'

"It is our understanding that

GPO's Micropublishing Advisory

Council, including appropriate

membership from the depository

library community and private in- dustry, will be activated.

"It is the Joint Committee's

understanding that the continuing

initiation of these steps will bo

vested in the Superintendent of Documents, with your concurrence,

rather than being left to the discretion, partially or wholly, of individual

departments or agencies.

"Finally, nothing in this authorization shall be construed as establishing any form of a microform

sales concept."

Special GPO Sales Program

Scheduled for ALA

Meeting

A lively presentation by GPO will take place at the upcoming annual

American Library Association Meeting to be held in Detroit, Michigan,

je sure not to miss it, and sign up

at the Meeting for the Federal Doc- uments Task Force Program which

will occur on June 21st at 2:00 p.m.

The very latest information will be

provided on how to most effectively

place orders, obtain subscriptions,

utilize GPO Bookstore services, and

deal with problem areas.

Assistant Public Printer (Superintendent of Documents)

GPO's Cooperative

Cataloging Program

Under the auspices of the Federal

Library Committee, the GPO Library

Division has begun an ambitious

program of shared cataloging with

other Federal libraries. A major goal

of the program is the reduction of duplicate cataloging efforts, leading

to each agency assuming cataloging

responsibility for its publications.

This will result in tighter biblio- graphic control, more uniform

treatment of documents, and an improvement in the timeliness of the MONTHLY CATALOG.

The program is presently designed for monographs only, since

GPO's involvement in CONSER

(Conversion of Serials Project) pre- cludes any serials effort. Libraries

interested in joining the shared cat- aloging program should be OCLC

members via FEDLINK (Federal Li- brary Network) and cataloging in the MARC format.

The cooperating libraries interact

directly with GPO catalogers who

are responsible for that agency's

publications, and consult on decisions regarding name authorities

and series treatment. Following the

physical exchange of hard copy, the

cooperating agency's cataloging is received at GPO on an OCLC ter- minal, and is then revised and

checked against GPO's authority

files for consistency with prior usage

in the MONTHLY CATALOG.

Present participants in the pro- gram are the Department of Health,

Education, and Welfare, along with

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Agricultural Information

Many depository libraries are sit- uated in agricultural areas and

make wide use of Department of Agriculture publications provided

through the depository program.

Even depositories in urban areas

get occasional requests for specialized agricultural information.

One of the most sophisticated sources of agricultural information

in the world is freely available to depositories, or to any information user for that matter. To obtain bib- liographies on agricultural subjects, or answers to any far-out agricultural question, write to:

Reference Division

National Agricultural Library

Beltsville, Maryland 20705

Depository libraries serving agri- cultural areas should also be sure to get on the mailing list for Agricultural Information Notes, mailed out monthly by the National Agricultural Library. It is filled with useful

information on how to answer agri- cultural questions and is available

free for the asking from:

U.S. Department of Agriculture

National Agricultural Library

Beltsville, Maryland 20705

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the Department of Transportation.

Several other agencies are now at the negotiation/planning stage.

Also under consideration is a pilot

project with the Library of Congress

on Congressional hearings which, it

is hoped, will lead to more extensive

cooperation in the future. An inter- esting by-product of these efforts is the eventual establishment of an online authority system for U.S. cor- porate entries.

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Questions about this program

may be directed to the GPO Library

Division, to Mr. Stuart Greenberg,

Chief, Classification and Cataloging Branch (703-557-2135).

Odd Items!

Did you know that the Monthly

Catalog for June 1952 has a document listed on page 40 without a SuDocs number? One eagle-eyed

librarian noticed, happened to need

the information, and called the Li- brary Division of GPO. Our Chief

Classifier was skeptical but he per- sonally checked both the MC and

our records—and gasped. On the

spot he assigned the number to entry #9098. It is, a quarter of a century late: Y 4.Sm 1/2: Al 8/2.

If you happen upon an "odd item"

which might be of interest to depo[

itory librarians, send it along to th^

Editor of HIGHLIGHTS for possible

publication.

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Special Needs

If your depository library has some special needs of a general or

specific nature, let us know. Below

are some recent requests. If you can

offer discards, write the requesting

depository a letter (sending a copy

to your regional). The library accepting the material agrees to pay any

postage and packing costs that may

be necessary.

Specific needs

Congressional Record, vols. 97, pts.

8, 10, 16, index; 100, pt. 5; 102 pt. 3; 107, pt. 17, index; 108, pt. 18,

index; 109, pts. 11, 12, 15, 17,

?x, daily digest; 117, pt. 24; 118,

pio. 6, 9, 16, daily digest.

Ms. Veronica Maclay

Documents Librarian

Hastings College of the Law Library

198 McAllister Street San Francisco, California 94102

American Education, 1971, July;

1973, Aug., Sept.; 1974, April.

Appalachia, vols. 1-8.

Business Conditions Digest, 1976.

June. Employments & Earnings, 1975,

July.

Federal Budget, 1972.

Mr. S. Mark Jarrell Government Documents Librarian

William C. Jason Library

Delaware State College

Dover, Delaware 19901

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Numerical List & Schedule of Volumes, 74th Congress, 1st Session; 75th Congress, 2nd Session;

77th Congress, 1st Session.

Serial Set, any volumes, 70th-81st

Congress

Ms. Nancy Lazar, Librarian

Judges Library

Room 5518, U.S. Court of Appeals

U.S. Court House

Washington, D.C. 20001

Congressional Record, vols. 117,

pts. 24, 33-36; 118, pt. 1; 119, pts. 13-24, 26, 32.

Ms. Jean M. Peters Documents Librarian

Charles A. Dana Library

Stetson University College of Law

1401 —61st Street South

St. Petersburg, Florida 33707

Numerical List & Schedule of Volumes, 93rd Congress, 1st Session.

Mrs. Rita C. Burkett

Reference Assistant—Documents

Roy 0. West Library

DePauw University

Greencastle, Indiana 46135

U.S. Board of Geographic Names,

Gazetteers for Czechoslovakia,

Ethiopia, Ireland, Luxemburg, Netherlands Antilles, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland,

United Kingdom.

Ms. Rebekah M. Harleston

Documents Consultant

Government Publications Department

University of Kentucky Libraries

Lexington, Kentucky 40506

Monthly Catalog, 1964, Feb.; any

before 1947.

Mr. William McCleary

Documents Librarian

Louisiana State University in Shreveport Library

8515 Youree Drive

Shreveport, Louisiana 71105

U.S. Statutes at Large, vol. 72, pt. 1.

Mr. Richard Harmon

Documents Librarian

Flint Public Library

1026 East Kearsley Street

Flint, Michigan 48502

Resources in Education, 1975, vol. 10, nos. 9, 11, 12; 1976, vol. 11, nos. 1-3.

Mrs. Kathryn Erisman

Government Documents Librarian

Ward Edwards Library

Central Missouri State University

Warrensburg, Missouri 64093

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Congressional Record, vol. 117, pts.

22, 24. (bound)

Monthly Checklist of State

Publications, 1967, Jan. -Apr.;

1975, May.

Ms. Joyce Wilowatyj

Documents Librarian

Harry A. Sprague Library

Upper Montclair, New Jersey 07043

Congressional Record, vols. 115,

pt. 1; 116, pt. 24, 25; 117, pt. 34.

Ms. Mary Boddy

Documents Librarian

New Mexico Junior College

Pannell Library

Hobbs, New Mexico 88240

Dictionary of American Naval

Fighting Ships, vol. 2 (C-F)

Mr. Stephen C. Erskine

Documents Librarian

Seymour Library

176 Genesee Street Auburn, New York 13021

U.S. -Puerto Rico Commission on

the Status of Puerto Rico, 1966.

Hearings, 3 vols.; Report; Selected

Background Studies.

Mr. Roger A. Jones

Documents Librarian

Documents Center

NYU/Bobst Library

70 Washington Square South

New York, New York 10012

ERIC-Research in Education, 1972

and earlier.

Mrs. Helen Sistrunk

Assistant Librarian

Carrie Rich Memorial Library

Campbell College

Buies Creek, North Carolina 27506

U.S. Customs Court Reports, vols. 10, 11, 13-16, 18, 21-23, 27, 30,

50-52.

Mrs. Josephine Ansley

Documents Librarian

Jay P. Taggart Law Library

Ada, Ohio 45810

Resources in Education, 1976, Jan.-

June, semiannual index.

Ms. Helen E. Shively

Reference Librarian

Ashland College Library

Ashland, Ohio 44805

Monthly Catalog, 1885-1918.

Ms. Caroline C. Long

Documents Librarian

Franklin & Marshall College Library

Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17604

Digest of International Law

(Whiteman), vol. 2.

Treaties and Other International

Agreements of the U.S.A., 1776-

1949 (Bevans), vol. 6.

Ms. Louise Rurode

Devereaux Library

South Dakota School of Mines &

Technology Rapid City, South

Dakota 57701

Treaties and Other International

Agreements of the U.S.A., 1176-

1949 (Bevans), vol. 9.

Mr. Karl T. Gruben, Librarian State Law Library

P.O. Box 12367

Austin, Texas 78711

Cumulated Index Medicus, 1972,

vol. 13 (bound).

Mental Retardation Abstracts, (

1973, vol. 10, nos. 1-3.

Research in Education, 1969, vol. 4, nos. 3-5.

Ms. Mary R. Costello

Documents Librarian

Library-Learning Resources Center

Castleton State College

Castleton, Vermont 05735

Documents Catalog, vols. 1, 7-10.

Mr. Jay W. Rea

Documents Librarian Eastern Washington State College

Cheney, Washington 99004

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