The purpose of the study reported here was to determine the effectiveness of the revised New York State Depository System, which had been operating for more than two years when the survey was conducted. Data were gathered from the depository libraries about their organization, bibliographic control and staffing, and to determine whether or not…

This description of the development from 1971 to 1977 of a state documents depository system in Missouri covers: (1) initial planning efforts by Meryl Atterberry (government documents librarian at the Missouri State Library) and the Missouri Library Association (MLA) State Documents Depository Legislation Subcommittee; (2) the distribution of a…

Three papers contributed to the joint conference of the Arizona State Library Association (ASLA) and the Arizona Educational Media Association (AEMA) are presented. "Participatory Evaluation: Alternatives for Library Instruction Evaluation" (Dennis Isbell and Lisa Kammerlocher) describes the experimental library instruction evaluation…