Public Access to Government Information: Issues, Trends and Strategies

by Peter Hernon, Charles R. McClure

Overview

This volume is issue-oriented. By showing that issues relating to topics such as access to government information resources, collection development, and administration are not unique to documents librarianship, it places selected topics in a wider context. The book's objectives are to identify and discuss critically important issues related to increasing access to government information resources, to offer solutions and recommendations by which government information resources and services can be made more effective, to encourage more assessments that examine issues across levels of government, to emphasize the importance and need for a research base related to government information resources and services, and to encourage a critical assessment of current practices and traditional assumptions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780893915230
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1988
Series:	Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policies, and Services
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	556
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.13(d)

About the Author

Peter Hernon is professor of library and information science at Simmons College, Boston, MA. He is the author of 50 books, including Library Unlimited's Viewing Library Metrics from Different Perspectives and Making a Difference: Leadership and Academic Libraries; and Praeger's Federal Information Policies in the 1990s: Views and Perspectives.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface
Public Access to Government Publications/Information Held in Depository Collections
Federal Information Policies
Impact of Federal Information Policies on Public Access to Government Information
Government Publications as a Significant Information Resource
Bibliographic Control of U.S. Government Publications
Developing Collections of U.S. Government Publications
Exploiting Technology for Government Information Collections
Improved Reference and Referral Services Through Increased Marketing and Awareness of Government Information Resources
Microforms and Access to Government Publications
Technical Report Literature (By Gary R. Purcell)
Administrative Considerations for Increased Access to Government Publications/Information
Integrating Government Information Resources into Library Services
Physical Facilities and Space Management
Processing Depository Publications
Planning and Evaluation of Government Information Services
Cooperation and Resource Sharing. Restructuring the GPO's Depository Library Program. Exploiting State and Local Information Resources
Access to Information from International Governmental Organizations (By Peter I. Hajnal)
Education of the Government Information Professional. Mainstreaming Government Publications/Information
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index