Tapping State Government Information Sources

"Tapping State Government Information Sources is a clearly organized, thorough guide to state government information resources. For researchers and librarians not specializing in the area, it provides a straightforward approach to locating this type of information, and will serve as a useful quick reference to experts....A useful addition to most collections, this title is particularly recommended for larger public libraries and academic libraries maintaining business and legal reference collections."-E-Streams "There are older guides to state documents, and Web sites that compile state government links, but no recent source approaches the elegance and thoroughness of this volume, which gathers a balanced selection of print and online state information sources....this is a tremendous contribution to a neglected area. Highly recommended. Academic and public libraries."-Choice ?There are older guides to state documents, and Web sites that compile state government links, but no recent source approaches the elegance and thoroughness of this volume, which gathers a balanced selection of print and online state information sources....this is a tremendous contribution to a neglected area. Highly recommended. Academic and public libraries.?-Choice ?Tapping State Government Information Sources is a clearly organized, thorough guide to state government information resources. For researchers and librarians not specializing in the area, it provides a straightforward approach to locating this type of information, and will serve as a useful quick reference to experts....A useful addition to most collections, this title is particularly recommended for larger public libraries and academic libraries maintaining business and legal reference collections.?-E-Streams

LORI L. SMITH is Head of the Government Documents Department at Southeastern Louisiana University's Sims Memorial Library. She is also a founding member of the Louisiana Advisory Council for the State Documents Depository Program. DANIEL C. BARKLEY is Coordinator of Government Information/Periodicals/Microforms at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He has served as Chair of the American Library Association's Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) and is incoming Chair of the U.S. Public Printer's Depository Library Council. He is also the Chair of the New Mexico Depository Library Council. DANIEL C. CORNWALL is the administrator of the Alaska State Publications Program as well as the technical services librarian for the Alaska State Library. ERIC W. JOHNSON is the Interim Library Director at the Sims Memorial Library, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond Louisiana. J. LOUISE MALCOMB teaches Government Information: Resources and Organization for Indiana University's School of Library and Information Science, Bloomington, Indiana. She has also served there as Head of Undergraduate Library Services and as Head and Librarian for Geography and Maps.