Volume 22, Number 1 (2003)

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    Department of Interior and the Indian Trust
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2003) Smedberg, Heather
    On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, the web sites of the United States Department of Interior, including all related bureaus, agencies, and organizations, were removed from the World Wide Web, without notice or any information on when would-be-users could expect restored service. The shutdown was a result of that day’s ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth in connection with a long-running civil lawsuit between members of various American Indian tribes and the Department of the Interior. The lawsuit deals with the mismanagement of Indian Trust Monies for over a hundred years by the Department of the Interior, but was brought to the attention of the wider public audience when it caused this widespread interruption of Internet service.
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    Exploring an Unknown Gold Mine: U.S. Government Documents on National Security
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2003) Chapman, Bert
    The September 11, 2001 Al Qaida terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and Pentagon brutally taught Americans that our status as the world’s sole superpower does not immunize us against military attack. These attacks resulted in a partial loss in public access to government information as some federal agencies withdrew from their web sites material they regarded as sensitive for national security reasons.
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    Government Databases, Documents and Web Sites in Health and Medicine
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2003) Skopelja, Elaine
    Within the last few years, the United States government has initiated a major effort to make government publications available in electronic format. Although there are still print materials produced, the trend for publicly available materials or those designed for mass distribution has been to make electronic copies available for printing or downloading. In some cases, the electronic version is the only version, leading to some concerns about future access to electronic-only materials and the archiving of such documents. In fact, there now exists the possibility that documents may be easily and permanently removed from public access, because of the electronic-version only policy. However, the trend towards having electronic-only versions will likely continue.
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    Indiana Libraries Guest Editor Guidelines
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2003) Indiana Libraries
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    Indiana Federal Depository Libraries Directory
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2003) Conrads, Doug
    This directory includes the following information as provided by the institution: Name of institution (federal depository number in parenthesis); Address; Telephone number for documents; FAX telephone number; E-mail address; Collects: indicates categories of documents collected(federal, state, and local) and relative size of federal documents selected (percentage); Depository for: indicates categories of documents library receives as a designated depository and year designated as depository; Contact: name of librarian(s) or staff to contact concerning document collections.
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    Indiana Libraries: Instructions to Authors
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2003) Indiana Libraries
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    Introduction
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2003) Truesdell, Cheryl B.
    This issue of Indiana Libraries is sponsored by INDIGO, Indiana Networking for Documents and Information of Government Organizations. INDIGO’s goals are to provide a forum for the discussion and exchange of ideas, to provide programs to increase the availability, use, and bibliographic control of government information, and to provide a voice for Indiana’s federal and state depositories concerning government information issues. INDIGO’s members include the state’s specialists in local, state, federal and international government information (see the Indiana Federal Depository Libraries Directory included in this issue). Some of these specialists have contributed articles for this issue of Indiana Libraries. The United States government is the largest print and electronic publisher in the world and locating specific items within this vast historical print and current electronic collection can be overwhelming. In this issue of Indiana Libraries Sylvia Andrews and Heather Smedberg provide guides to information concerning native Americans, Bert Chapman highlights national security policy documents, Lou Malcomb and Mardi Mahaffy locate maps of Indiana buried in the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, Elaine Skopelja identifies documents and Web sites for health and medicine, and Linda R. Zellmer provides government information on the environment and natural sciences. With the move to migrate from print to electronic publishing a wealth of government publications are now available free on the Internet. Any library can learn how to add electronic government documents to their online catalog and/or download and enhance a Web page template of basic government documents resources using the startup kit in this issue. This issue also includes articles by Andrea Singer on locating foreign documents and Daina Bohr on the processing of federal documents.
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    Maps of Indiana Issued in the U.S. Congressional Serial Set
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2003) Malcomb, Lou; Mahaffy, Mardi
    The Island of Lost Maps, a popular little book written by Miles Harvey, recently came to the attention of many librarians and the public at large on the value of rare maps. Its author explores the theft of historical maps from some of the world’s most famous libraries. Looking at some of the titles described by Harvey, most “documents” librarians would recognize that some of the titles were originally published by the U.S. government in House and Senate Documents and compiled into the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, hereafter referred to as the Serial Set.
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    Notes
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2003) Indiana Libraries