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About the Committee

• Purpose and Description (GODORT Bylaws)
• Committee Procedures (GODORT Policies and Procedures Manual)
• Committee Members
  
• Minutes from Conference Meetings
  • 2008 Midwinter Meeting - Philadelphia
  • 2007 Annual Meeting - Washington, D.C.
  • 2007 Midwinter Meeting - Seattle
  • 2006 Annual Meeting - New Orleans
  • 2006 Midwinter Meeting - San Antonio
  • 2005 Annual Meeting - Chicago
  • 2005 Midwinter Meeting - Boston
  • 2004 Annual Conference - Orlando
  • Previous Meetings

Committee Responsibilities

• DttP: Documents to the People
  • DttP Procedures(GODORT PPM)
• GODORT Website Administrator (GODORT PPM)
• Notable Documents Panel (GODORT PPM)
  • Members
  • Notable Documents List: History and Bibliography
  • Notable Document Nomination Form

GODORT Publications

• History of GODORT 1972-1992
• Abbott-Hoduski, Bernadine E. Cataloging government documents:a manual of interpretation for AACR2.   Chicago: American Library Association, 1984
• Andrews, Michael, Elizabeth Dole, and Stephen Torok. Proceedings of the Second Annual Government Documents Workshop, June 19-20, 1975 held at University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.  Oswego: Continuing Education Office of the State University of New York, 1976
• Cheney, Debora. The complete guide to citing government information resources...   Bethesda, MD: LexisNexis & CIS (3 eds., slightly different titles: 1984 - 2003. 1st ed. by Diane L. Garner; 2nd ed., Diane L. Garner, Diane H. Smith, et al.)
• Directory of government document collections & librarians.   Bethesda, MD: LexisNexis & CIS (8 editions: 1974 to 2003)
• Directory of selected Illinois state agencies.  Illinois State Library.; American Library Association, 1974
• Draft syllabus of resources for teaching government publications.  American Library Association, 1976
• Guide to official publications of foreign countries.   Bethesda, MD: CIS (1st ed., Gloria Westfall, editor in chief, 1990. 2nd ed., Susan I. Jover, editorial director, 1997)
• Guidelines for minimum state servicing of state documents.  American Library Association, 1982
• Guidelines for state documents with selected commentary.  American Library Association, 1972
• Harleston, Rebekah and LeRoy C Schwarzkopf. Reactions to proposed standards and guidelines for the depository library system.  Arlington, Va. : Computer Microfilm International Corp.,1976
• Hernon, Peter et.al., eds. Municipal government reference sources: publications and collections.  New York: Bowker, 1978
• Lane, Margaret T., comp. A Guide to the documents on documents collection, 1973...   Baton Rouge, LA: M.T. Lane, 1984
• Lane, Margaret T. State publications: depository distribution and bibliographical programs.  Austin, TX: Texas State Publications Clearinghouse, Texas State Library, 1980
• Lane, Margaret T. State publications depository legislation.  Baton Rouge, 1977
• Lee, Tae Moon. Analysis of U.S. Government Printing Office documents depository survey items: final report.  Chicago: American Library Association, 1978
• Shaaban, Marian, ed. in chief. Guide to country information in international governmental organization publications.   Bethesda, MD: CIS, 1996
• Turner, Carol A., comp. Directory of foreign document collections.  New York: UNIPUB, 1985
• Walsh, Jim, Barbara Hulyk, and George Barnum, eds. Rare and valuable government documents: a resource packet on identification preservation, and security issues for government documents collections.   Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1993

Committee Working Papers

• Should Electronic Publishing be in GODORT's Future? A Discussion Paper on the possibility of GODORT publishing an electronic occasional paper series January 2002
• GODORT creating an online publishing presence: advantages and disadvantages? July 2000