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Government Publishing in the Canadian Provinces : A Prescriptive Study / A. Paul Pross, Catherine A. Pross.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pross, A. Paul, Author.
- Pross, Catherine A., Author.
- Series:
- Heritage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Printing, Public--Canada.
- Printing, Public.
- Government publications--Canada--Provinces.
- Government publications.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This work examines both the policies and practices o the provincial governments in regard to the services performed by the Queen's Printers or their equivalents, and the holdings and availability of government documents, both processed and published.
- Contents:
- Cover; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of tables and charts; 1 The problem; 2 Problems of definition: the hidden revolution in information technology; 3 The current model for production; 4 Publication distribution: government systems; Distribution Structures; (i) Atlantic provinces; (ii) Western provinces; (iii) Quebec; (iv) Ontario; Mailing lists; Perpetuation of decentralized systems; 5 Output to input: the difficult task of acquiring provincial government publications of; Depository libraries; Conclusions; 6 Finding aids: uncertain guides to publication production; Document discovery
- CanadianaBibliographies and checklists of provincial publications; 7 Existing library resources; Strength of collections; Hansard; Royal Commission materials; Election data; Publications on microfilm; Access; General comments and conclusions; 8 Organization of collections; Separate vs. integrated collections; Cataloguing and classification systems; Automation; 9 The underdeveloped role of provincial legislative libraries; 10 Recommendations; Summary of recommendations; Appendix I: The questionnaire; Appendix II: legislative authorization of depository status
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
- Reprinted in 2018.
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-8284-6
- OCLC:
- 1129142126
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