Most items offered will be appropriate for the collection except posters, ephemera and some technical handbooks, manuals and guides. Close attention will be given to government information that is available on the Internet and the library will seek to reflect the availability of these items in Galileo, our on-line catalog. The Library will continue to select the paper or microfiche copies of these materials if they are deemed important sources, but will consider deselecting items of lesser importance as they are made available on the Internet. Most depository items will be house in the government documents area and arranged in SuDoc order. Some items of particular interest to the Reference Department are recataloged and assigned Library of Congress numbers.
Some document journals are also recataloged and housed in periodicals.
Galileo records reflect the location of the documents, whether they are in SuDoc or LC classifications. A selective housing arrangement with the Valparaiso University Law Library is in place for a period of 10 years. Format Considerations in format selection include the nature of the publication, space requirements, frequency of use, and technical requirements for hardware and software. For heavily used items, paper copies are preferred. Microfiche is preferred for archival materials.