8.8 Additional Resources

8.8.A Tools for Identifying Rare and Valuable Government Publications

Haskell, Daniel Carl. The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, and Its Publications, 1838-1874: A Bibliography. New York: New York Public Library, 1942.

Hasse, Adelaide R. Bibliography of United States Public Documents Relating to Interoceanic Communications, Nicaragua, Isthmus of Panama, Isthmus of Tehuantepic, etc. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1899.

Hasse, Adelaide R. Index to United States Documents Relating to Foreign Affairs, 1828-1861 (Publication 185, pts. 1-3). Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Hasse, Adelaide R., comp. Reports of Explorations Printed in the Documents of the United States Government: A Contribution Toward a Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1899.

Heisser, David. “Federal Documents as Rare Books.” Documents to the People 16, no. 4, (1988): 176-178.

Moffett, William A., ed. The Shinn Lists. Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin College, 1982. (This is the list of materials prepared from the accumulated card file of an accomplished book thief.)

Pestana, Harold R. Bibliography of Congressional Geology. New York: Hafner, 1972.

Poore, Benjamin Perley. Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, Sept. 5, 1774-March 4, 1881. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1885. (48th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Miscellaneous Document 67) (Serial Set vol. 2268). Also reprinted editions.

Seavey, Charles A. “Bibliographic Addendum to Carl Wheat's Mapping the Transmississippi West.” Special Library Association, Geography and Map Division. Bulletin 105 (Sept. 1976) : 12-19.

Seavey, Charles A. “Locating Illustrated Federal Publications from the Pre-GPO Period Using the 1909 Checklist.” Documents to the People 17, no. 3 (September 1989) : 130.

Seavey, Charles A. “Maps of the American State Papers.” Special Libraries Association, Geography and Map Division. Bulletin 107 (Mar. 1977) : 28-33, and 110 (Dec. 1977) : 3-11.

Seavey, Charles A. “Wheat to Serial Set Conversion.” Special Libraries Association, Geography and Map Division. Bulletin 108 (June 1977) : 37-40.

Shaw, Ralph R. American Bibliography, a Preliminary Checklist for 1801-1819. New York: Scarecrow, 1958-66.

Shoemaker, Richard H. A Checklist of American Imprints 1820-1829. New York: Scarecrow, 1964-71. Title index for 1820-1928 by Cooper, M. Frances... Followed by 1830, Cooper, Gayle; 1831, Bruentjen, Scott and Carol Bruntjen; and 1830-1839, Rinderknecht, Carol (also title index).

United States. Dept. of the Interior. Division of Documents. Comprehensive Index to the Publications of the United States Government, 1881-1893, by John G. Ames. Washington, D.C. : G.P.O., 1905.

Wagner, Henry Raup. The Plains and the Rockies: A Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure, and Travel in the American West, 1800-1865. Various editions.

Wheat, Carl. Mapping the Trans-Mississippi West, 1540-1861. San Francisco: Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-1963.

Wondriska, Rebecca. “Women and the American Dream, 1900-1925.” Government Publications Review 17, no. 2 (March/April 1990) : 143-157. Although this goes beyond the 1909 Checklist, it is an approach to be followed developing a list for a special interest subject.

8.8.B Preservation of Tangible Material

The Northeast Documents Conservation Center has many resources on the care and preservation of tangible publications.

8.8.C Preservation of Tangible Electronic Material

Byers, Fred R. “ Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists” Council on Library and Information Resources, 2003.

Federal Depository Library Program, “ Depository Library Public Service Guidelines for Government Information in Electronic Formats.”, (Washington, D.C.: FDLP, n.d.), (accessed 22 August 2005).

Federal Depository Library Program. “2005 Minimum Technical Requirements for Public Access Workstations in Federal Depository Libraries.” (Washington, D.C.: FDLP, n.d.), (accessed 22 August 2005).

Herter, Nancy K. “CD-ROM in Libraries.” Online, May/June 1995, 109. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO.

Landau, Herbert B. “Microform vs. CD-ROM: Is There a Difference?” The Forum, Library Journal, 1 October 1990, 56. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO.

Manns, Basil and Chandru J. Shahani. “Longevity of CD Media. Research at the Library of Congress.” (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2003), (accessed 22 August 2005).

Poor, Alfred. “Hardware.” PC Magazine, 16 May 1995, 293. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO.