Analysis of Non‐Depository Documents in the Government Publications Collection

Abstract

In the past few years, as budgets have tightened and available shelving space has diminished, U.S. government documents librarians have for the first time given serious consideration to formulating collection development policies and to carefully scrutinizing their expenditures as well as their collections. In the process of evaluating its collection and in an effort to make better use of available funding, the Government Publications Department of the University of Nevada‐Reno (a regional depository with a collection exceeding one million documents) undertook a study to determine if the Department could justify canceling its subscription to the Readex Microprint collection of non‐depository titles represented in the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications.