Following is a letter from University of Houston Law Library to U. S.
Government Printing Office in response to a change in polcies affecting
law library federal depositories.
Have other law library depositories responded to this point? The
policy is quoted in our reponse below.
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University of Houston Law Library
Government Documents Department
Houston, TX 77204-6390
11 December 1992
Mr. Wayne P. Kelley,
Superintendent of Documents
United States Government Printing Office
Washington, DC 20402
RE: Paper/Microfiche Hearings
Dear Mr. Kelley:
We have your letter of November 18th and Survey which we received on
November 30th. We responded by FAX to the Survey on December 4th, and we
will respond more fully to your letter in a few days.
The purpose of this letter is to respond to one point in the November
18th letter in which you state the following.
Law schools that are affiliated with another
depository library at the same academic institution
are requested to coordinate their survey responses
with their university library. The hearings can be
shared between the two libraries, or one library can
receive paper copies and one microfiche copies [sic],
but only one set of paper hearings may go to the
university.
We are concerned about how GPO is going to interpret this paragraph.
it determine which law schools are affiliated with another
depository library at the same academic institution? Some law school
depository libraries are affiliated with their university libraries and
some are autonomous libraries.
At the University of Houston, the M. D. Anderson Library is a
depository library and has branches. The Law Center library is not a
branch. The Law Center library is an autonomous library and as such is
not subject to the restriction in the paragraph set forth above.
The Law Center depository library cooperates with eight other
depository libraries in the greater Houston area, and we will continue to
do so. We are in the process of developing a Union List of Items Selected
for our area which we expect to use to coordinate our depository
selections.
As reflected in our FAXed Survey response, we choose to continiue to
receive the paper hearings we currently select. Our privilege to do so
should not be abrogated upon the ground that we are a law library
depository affiliated with a university.
Yours truly,
Mary I. Shearer
Government Documents Librarian
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