American Library Association

Government Documents Round Table

Rare and Endangered
Government Publications Committee

The Committee

• Membership
• GODORT Bylaws Description
• Minutes
• ALA Midwinter, New Orleans, LA January 11, 1998
• ALA Annual, Washington DC June 28, 1998
• ALA Midwinter, Philadelphia, PA January 31, 1999
• ALA Annual, New Orleans, LA June 27, 1999
•     Serial Set Subcommittee
• ALA Midwinter, San Antonio, TX January 17, 2000
•     Serial Set Subcommittee
• ALA Annual, Chicago, IL July 9, 2000
•     Serial Set Subcommittee
• ALA Midwinter, Washington, DC January 14, 2001
• 2001 GODORT Pre-Conference  "19th and Early 20th Century Federal Documents: Research Avenues and Access Tools."

Activities

• U.S. Serial Set
• U.S. Congressional Serial Set, What it is and its History, Virginia Saunders

Spring 1998 Depository Library Council/Federal Depository Conference in Arlington, Virginia.
• U.S. Congressional Serial Set, Assigned Serial Numbers Not Used, Virginia Saunders & August Imholtz, Administrative Notes Technical Supplement, Nov. 30, 1998.
• Readers Exchange: Restricted Access and the GODORT Serial Set Survey, Bill Sleeman, Administrative Notes, Oct. 15, 1998
• 1996-1998 Serial Set Study

Publications and Resource Guides

• The Identification, Preservation And Security Of Rare And Valuable Government Documents: a Selective Bibliography, Barbara Hulyk, Jim Walsh, and George Barnum
• Preservation Policy, American Library Association, 1991
• Rare and Endangered Government Publications: A Little Help from Your Friends (ALA Poster Session, 1995), Jim Gravois, Aimee Quinn
• Early United States Statutes at Large: A Research Guide, David Langenberg (University of Delaware Library)
• Government Documents as Rare Books: Articles from the 1988 ALA Annual Conference

Preservation and Archive Sites

• Conservation OnLine
• European Preservation Information Center
• Library of Congress Preservation Directorate
• National Archives and Records Administration
• Northeast Document Conservation Center

Other Professional Pages

• Government Publications
• GODORT Home Page
• GODORT/Federal Documents Task Force
• GODORT/International Documents Task Force
• GODORT/State and Local Documents Task Force
• Resources of use to Government Documents Librarians
• Other Associations
• ALA/Association of College and Research Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
• ALA/Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, Preservation and Reformatting Section
• Association of Research Libraries, Preservation Program
• ALA/Map and Geography Round Table

David H. Larkin
James G. Gee Library
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Last Updated: July 16, 1999
Comments? Contact:david_larkin@tamu-commerce.edu