Introduction

Abstract

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.