From Chapter 6: Technical Services

Libraries are encouraged to mainstream government publications into the overall library collection, as appropriate; government publications collections to do not have to be maintained in Superintendent of Documents number order.

Library administrators should consider requesting and reviewing statistics concerning their depository and government publications collections. Among the statistics commonly found on library-related surveys are:

• Number of monographic titles cataloged by format, i.e., paper, microform, tangible electronic, and others
• Number of monographic volumes added by format
• Number of serial titles cataloged by format
• Number of serial issues added by format
• Number of records maintained or updated