Current Survey of Government Documents Reference Sources

Abstract

These days, with everyone on the government publications bandwagon, it is hard for the documents specialist to single out specific problems to worry about. Workshops are cropping up like new corn from coast to coast; articles and books about government documents redundantly abound; a disciplined and ruthless army of microform and documents reprint salesmen regale us with gusto and champagne while the GPO issues directives, notices, guidelines and newsletters and sets new records for distributing federal information. The state of the art is a busy canvas indeed. So I wish to single out two subjects from the welter of topics which may be ripe for consideration: our failure to properly recognize the contribution that genealogists have made to our reference services and our unforgivable and unrequited lust for “archival” microforms.

Citation

Hoover, J. (1979), "Current Survey of Government Documents Reference Sources", Reference Services Review, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 25-29. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048649