United States Government Information: Policies and Sources

This book is aimed at an audience ranging from practicing librarians to students of public policy and administration, journalism, political science, library and information science and the general public. Its authors are well‐respected library and information science faculty and government information professionals.

The authors begin with an introduction to the history of government publishing. Later chapters discuss either the various branches of government and their publications or the types of information produced by the US federal government, with additional chapters on general indexes and the federal depository library system. These chapters generally begin with a definition or explanation of the...