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Collection Development Statement
for Government Publications
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General Statement Brooklyn College was first designated as a depository in 1937. The Government Publications unit's purpose is two-fold: 1) In compliance with the requirements defined in the Instructions to Depository Libraries, Guidelines for the Depository Library System, and the Federal Depository Library Manual, it serves the government information needs of the constituents of the 9th U.S. Congressional District; 2) In support of Brooklyn College's mission to provide undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students with a superior education in the liberal arts and sciences, it participates in the general collecting activities of the Library which not only serves the college community but CUNY and selected high schools as well. The Government Publications unit participates in the New York State depository program as a Tier 3 member receiving selected materials at the discretion of the NY State Library. New York City has no depository program, their sole designee for official publications is the Municipal Reference and Research Center at 31 Chambers St, NYC. Our patrons are referred to the center for materials not available online. The Library is not a member of the United Nations depository program and international materials fall under the responsibilities of the social science bibliographers. The Government Publications librarian includes selected links to NYC and UN webpages on the Government Information subject page located at: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/library/electronic_resources/govdocs.htm Federal Publications
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librarian consults with other members of the METRO Government Documents
Interest Group (METRO-GODIG) to coordinate collections with other local
depositories. The Government Publications librarian also consults
with faculty and other bibliographers on selections. Requests for non-depository
publications printed by GPO or other government agencies, as well as second
copies for reference or circulation, are filled using the Library of Congress
Documents Expediting service or with funds from deposit accounts with the
Government Printing Office, Bureau of the Census and the National Technical
Information Service.
Subjects
Collection strengths levels Census and Demographics 3-1 Census of Population and Housing (incomplete--current and historical) Economic Censuses (various formats) Statistical Abstract of the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics publications National Center for Health Statistics publications National Institute for Criminal Justice Statistics publications Bureau of Labor Statistics publications Law, Justice and the Judiciary 3-2 Crime in the US Uniform Crime Reports FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin miscellaneous Justice Statistics Bureau publications Correctional Populations in the U.S. INS publications ADA materials Supreme Court Reports Economics and Business 3-1 Commerce Department publications Economic Censuses Commerce Business Daily Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey Current Business Reports Federal Reserve Bulletin Bureau of Economic Analysis publications Consumer Price Index Income and Earnings Area Trends Monthly Labor Review Stat-USA Import/Export information AgExporter (Agriculture Department) Country Commercial Guides Education 3-1 ERIC General publications from the Department of Education National Library of Education National Center for Education Statistics publications National Education Goals materials Education Research and Improvement Office publications Elementary and Secondary Education Office publications Foreign relations of the U.S. (State Department) 3-2 Foreign Relations of the U.S. 1861-current Treaties in Force 1776-current Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Geology 3-1 USGS Professional Papers USGS Bulletins Geographic Names publications Topographic maps (housed in the Geology Department) Selected National Park Service publications Health and Nutrition 3-1 Health USA Healthy People 2000 series MMWR (Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report) Centers for Disease Control publications National Center for Heath Statistics publications National Institutes of Health publications National Institutes of Mental Health publications ICD-9 (series) National Cancer Institute publications PubMed National Library of Medicine publications Medicare and Medicaid materials Health Care Financing Review OSHA publications Human Nutrition Service publications (Agriculture Department) Composition of Foods History U.S. 3-1 Hearings Serial Set (House and Senate Reports and Documents--incomplete series) Congressional Globe/Congressional Record 1853-present War of the Rebellion Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies during the War of the Rebellion Department of War and Department of the Navy publications Letters to Delegates to Congress 1774-1789 Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence (Wharton), 1775-1785 American Archives Documentary History of the American Revolution Territorial Papers of the United States vol 2-28 (missing vol 1) Documentary History of the United States of America Waits State Papers 1789-1815 Smithsonian Institute Ethnographic Series Foreign Relations of the United States 1861-present Census publications Nuremburg Trail materials (Green, Red, Blue sets) Military History 2 (Defense Department publications) Country information 3-2 CIA World Factbook Area Handbooks (Defense Department) Country Market Surveys Foreign Economic Trends Country Information from the State Department – List of Independent Countries – Diplomatic List – Chiefs of State of Foreign Countries – U.S. Embassies and Consulates – Background Notes - International Organization Affairs Regional Reports from the State Department Country Commercial Guides International Topics and Issues Post Reports StatUSA IRS publications (Treasury Department) 3-1 IRS Bulletin IRS Tax Publications Forms (3 years + current) Package X : Reference Copies of Federal Tax Forms and Instructions Lexis Nexis NYS Tax Forms: Reproducible Forms (2 years + current) Legislative materials 3-1 Bills 96th Congress-present Congressional Hearings (selelcted committees) Congressional Hearings Index CIS Index Serial Set (House and Senate Reports and Documents--incomplete series) Serial Set Index Congressional Globe/Congressional Record 1853-present House and Senate Journals Statutes At Large U.S. Code U.S. Code Congressional and Administrative News Federal Register Code of Federal Regulations Presidential papers 3-2 Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Executive Orders Roosevelt (privately published) Truman-present New York State 2 Brooklyn College is a Tier 3 member of the New York State depository program. While this theoretically includes a core list of 15 titles plus other titles as they are made available in sufficient quantities for distribution. Core titles are seldom distributed in a timely fashion; the additional materials are somewhat random in nature. The Government Publications unit reviews lists of materials and requests items of interest; however, most agencies do not have a budget for mailing materials. Essential materials are purchased when possible. Web publications are used to fill these gaps where available. New York State provides its own classification for publications; however, not all materials distributed have numbers. The unit keeps an authority file of the basic letter designations for each agency and uses them to group publications with no numbers with other publications from the same agency. As there are no indices for New York State materials, significant titles are submitted to technical services for LC cataloging and inclusion in CUNY+. Statistical materials and directories or materials relating specifically to New York City are kept at the Government Publications' service desk and shelved with comparable federal publications due to the lack of indexing available for NYS materials. New York City 2 New York City has no depository program. Many agencies supply their publications free of charge if the requesting library can pick them up. Agencies do not maintain mailing lists, have no mail budget and may or may not release publication schedules making it difficult to obtain materials even if they are free. The Library does not systematically collect NYC materials; however, materials relating to demographics and local community information and maps are purchased from City Books or City Planning's Map Sales Office when they become available. It is hoped that as online resources for both New York State and New York City become more extensive they may be used to fill gaps in the collection. The New York State GILS (Government Information Locator) is an important tool for developing this part of the collection as is the NYC Publications page http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/serdir/html/pubs.html. Commercially published materials Where needed, commercially published materials are purchased to assist users of government information. Important finding aids include: CIS Index, NTIS, Census products, Federal Register microfiche, Guide to U.S. Government Publications (Andriot), and Government Periodicals Universe. Duplication Duplicate copies of publications are purchased in accordance with these priorities: Material requested by bibliographers for inclusion in the main reference collection or the circulating collection. Examples include Statistical Abstract of the United States (reference) and Area Handbooks (circulating). Materials requested for the Reserve collection. Office use material or other
specially requested government publications (upon approval by a subject
bibliographer or the Government Publications librarian) supporting faculty
research.
Jane Cramer
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