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EPA reports bibliography: A listing of EPA reports available from the National Technical Information Service as of April 1, 1973
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farmers, degree days, and special censuses as well as a list of sources of state data. A great improvement was the conversion of the birth and death data to rates rather than a count. A disappointment, though, was the lack of 1972 election data. Another inconvenience is the lack of figures on the $7,OOO-$9,999 income category, requiring the user to compute this from the other categories. The general information includes detailed definitions of statistical concepts and an explanation of the geographic codes. The source notes contain an explanation of how the computations were made as well as what is included. The appendices include the rank order of the counties, cities, SIMSA’S,and urban areas. Also the user can find the count upon which some of the percentages are figured in the appendices. A small library without the budget to purchase all of the censuses included can find this an acceptable substitute at a much lower price. Another value is that i t can serve as a guide to more detailed data in the censuses. Philip Van De Voorde Govemmen t Documents Librarian Iowa State University
EPA Reports Bibliography: a Listing of EPA Reports Availabie from the National Technical Information Service as of April 1,1973. Environmental Protection Agency. - July 1973. (EPA-LIB-73-01)
EP.2l:En8/5/973.
X great problem with access to government publications around the United States has been the inconsistency of their availability for distribution. The publications of any agency have been available for sale or selective distribution from GPO (Government Printing Office), from NTIS (National Technical Information Service), from the Library of Congress, or from the agency involved. For agencies have not sent all of their publications to the same place, if, ‘indeed, they send them at all. In all the confusion, all government publications are not indexed by GPO in the Monthly Catalog or by NTIS in Government Reports Announcements and. . Jndex. Many are not indexed at all and are, for all intents and purposes, lost. It is now required by law’ that each federal agency submit copies of all publications that are not confidential in nature nor printed by GPO, to GPO and to the Library of Congress. In most cases, this is still more theoretical than actual. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has been one of the first government agencies to make a serious attempt to correct this problem. EPA is one of the few agencies with a library in each region. The librarians in these regions believe in the Freedom of Information Act* and put much time and effort into distribution of EPA publications to the appropriate institutions. They have placed copies of all new publications, restricted as stated above, with GPO, Library of Congress, and NTIS to make them available for sale or other distribution as well as for accessibility through the indexing and cataloging capabilities of these institutions. They pay NTIS for the indexing service provided, as well-as doing all the search for and collection of outdated documents to be indexed. Now, EPA has taken another step in support of the Freedom of Information Act. They
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have published their own bibliography of all of their publications and those of their predecessor agencies which are available from NTIS; they have distributed this resource through GPO and had it placed on depository status. People no longer need to look through years of GRZ and the Monthly Catalog under a variety of subject entries; everything is now in one easy-to-use volume. The basic bibliography includes citations on all reports available (in paper copy and microfiche) from NTIS until April 1, 1973; a supplement, to be published in February 1974 will update it through 1973. The format of the bibliography is the same as that of GRA with the citations arranged numerically throughout the 447 pages by the PB numbers. Availability from GPO is indicated where appropriate, together with the Superintendent of Documents call number and price. The index section, comparable in size to the bibliography, corresponds basically to the content of GRI with separateindexing by title, subject, corporate author, personal author, contract number, and accession/report number. This is the first time NTIS has indexed by title; it was done at the insistence of EPA and, hopefully, may be done in the future in GRZ. The EPA Reports Bibliography is currently3 sold out, and NTIS is swamped with orders for the complete set on microfiche. And there are plans for still more improvement: Bernadine E. Hoduski, librarian for EPA, Region VIII in Kansas City, indicates she is working on a future edition to include SuDoc’s numbers, which will be invaluable to depository librarians. The EPA librarians are setting a good example for promoting access to their agency’s publications, and this bibliography is ample proof.
FOOTNOTES '44USC
1710.1718.1719.
'5 USC 552. 'Decemkr 1973.
Mary G. Sanders Federal Documents Librarian Library Arizona Department of Administration
League of Nations & United Nations Monthly List of Selected Articles: Cumulative, 19!20-1970. Editor: Norman S. Field. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Oceana, 1971The ambitious project of the United Nations Geneva Library and Oceana to make available an edited reproduction of the card index of selected periodical articles originally begun by the League of Nations is now more than half complete. Six volumes of Political Questions have been seen along with two volumes of Legal Questions and Volume One of Economic Questions. Norman S. Field, Associate Chief Librarian of the Geneva Library, is editor of this set which costs $50 per volume and is expected to be complete in 15 volumes. 1.’
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farmers, degree days, and special censuses as well as a list of sources of state data. A great improvement was the conversion of the birth and death data to rates rather than a count. A disappointment, though, was the lack of 1972 election data. Another inconvenience is the lack of figures on the $7,OOO-$9,999 income category, requiring the user to compute this from the other categories. The general information includes detailed definitions of statistical concepts and an explanation of the geographic codes. The source notes contain an explanation of how the computations were made as well as what is included. The appendices include the rank order of the counties, cities, SIMSA’S,and urban areas. Also the user can find the count upon which some of the percentages are figured in the appendices. A small library without the budget to purchase all of the censuses included can find this an acceptable substitute at a much lower price. Another value is that i t can serve as a guide to more detailed data in the censuses. Philip Van De Voorde Govemmen t Documents Librarian Iowa State University
EPA Reports Bibliography: a Listing of EPA Reports Availabie from the National Technical Information Service as of April 1,1973. Environmental Protection Agency. - July 1973. (EPA-LIB-73-01)
EP.2l:En8/5/973.
X great problem with access to government publications around the United States has been the inconsistency of their availability for distribution. The publications of any agency have been available for sale or selective distribution from GPO (Government Printing Office), from NTIS (National Technical Information Service), from the Library of Congress, or from the agency involved. For agencies have not sent all of their publications to the same place, if, ‘indeed, they send them at all. In all the confusion, all government publications are not indexed by GPO in the Monthly Catalog or by NTIS in Government Reports Announcements and. . Jndex. Many are not indexed at all and are, for all intents and purposes, lost. It is now required by law’ that each federal agency submit copies of all publications that are not confidential in nature nor printed by GPO, to GPO and to the Library of Congress. In most cases, this is still more theoretical than actual. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has been one of the first government agencies to make a serious attempt to correct this problem. EPA is one of the few agencies with a library in each region. The librarians in these regions believe in the Freedom of Information Act* and put much time and effort into distribution of EPA publications to the appropriate institutions. They have placed copies of all new publications, restricted as stated above, with GPO, Library of Congress, and NTIS to make them available for sale or other distribution as well as for accessibility through the indexing and cataloging capabilities of these institutions. They pay NTIS for the indexing service provided, as well-as doing all the search for and collection of outdated documents to be indexed. Now, EPA has taken another step in support of the Freedom of Information Act. They
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have published their own bibliography of all of their publications and those of their predecessor agencies which are available from NTIS; they have distributed this resource through GPO and had it placed on depository status. People no longer need to look through years of GRZ and the Monthly Catalog under a variety of subject entries; everything is now in one easy-to-use volume. The basic bibliography includes citations on all reports available (in paper copy and microfiche) from NTIS until April 1, 1973; a supplement, to be published in February 1974 will update it through 1973. The format of the bibliography is the same as that of GRA with the citations arranged numerically throughout the 447 pages by the PB numbers. Availability from GPO is indicated where appropriate, together with the Superintendent of Documents call number and price. The index section, comparable in size to the bibliography, corresponds basically to the content of GRI with separateindexing by title, subject, corporate author, personal author, contract number, and accession/report number. This is the first time NTIS has indexed by title; it was done at the insistence of EPA and, hopefully, may be done in the future in GRZ. The EPA Reports Bibliography is currently3 sold out, and NTIS is swamped with orders for the complete set on microfiche. And there are plans for still more improvement: Bernadine E. Hoduski, librarian for EPA, Region VIII in Kansas City, indicates she is working on a future edition to include SuDoc’s numbers, which will be invaluable to depository librarians. The EPA librarians are setting a good example for promoting access to their agency’s publications, and this bibliography is ample proof.
FOOTNOTES '44USC
1710.1718.1719.
'5 USC 552. 'Decemkr 1973.
Mary G. Sanders Federal Documents Librarian Library Arizona Department of Administration
League of Nations & United Nations Monthly List of Selected Articles: Cumulative, 19!20-1970. Editor: Norman S. Field. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Oceana, 1971The ambitious project of the United Nations Geneva Library and Oceana to make available an edited reproduction of the card index of selected periodical articles originally begun by the League of Nations is now more than half complete. Six volumes of Political Questions have been seen along with two volumes of Legal Questions and Volume One of Economic Questions. Norman S. Field, Associate Chief Librarian of the Geneva Library, is editor of this set which costs $50 per volume and is expected to be complete in 15 volumes. 1.’