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Finding Government Gray Literature

Finding Government Gray Literature. Gray Literature. Not commercially published Technical reports, working papers, business documents, proceedings Limited indexing to identify Availability uncertain. When I talk about government publications. All Government Publications Look Alike.

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Finding Government Gray Literature

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  1. Finding Government Gray Literature

  2. Gray Literature • Not commercially published • Technical reports, working papers, business documents, proceedings • Limited indexing to identify • Availability uncertain

  3. When I talk about government publications

  4. All Government Publications Look Alike

  5. All Government Agencies Sound Alike • Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife: Salem, Ore. • Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife • Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks • Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources • Vermont Fish & Wildlife • US Fish and Wildlife Service

  6. All Government Publications Have the Same Title

  7. All Agencies Have the Same Name • Corporate name cataloging protocols • Abbreviations for agencies • Agencies change names • Call numbers built from agency

  8. Cataloging Practices • Geological Survey (U S) • U S Dept Of Commerce • Washington (State) State Board For Community College Education • Oregon. Anadromous Fish Section • Washington State University • University Of Washington

  9. Finding Aids • Google • Ask George /Find-it • Internet web sites • Books

  10. WA Govt Search Engines http://find-it.wa.gov/search.asp http://access.wa.gov

  11. WA FIND-IT GOOGLE In October 2005 !

  12. Internet Finding Aids

  13. Print Finding Aid: Andriot’s

  14. Finding Aids for WA Publications • Ask George/Find-it search engines • Laser Cat • Local online catalogs for State Library, large collections, local collections • Bibliographies by agencies • In development: Agency family charts • Ask the State Depository

  15. Title and Agency Search in OCLC

  16. Results

  17. Real Cases

  18. Case 1: The “cat sep” McMillan, Bird Coal washing problems of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington Engineering Experiment Station Bulletin No. 28, 1924

  19. The OCLC record Coal washing problems of the Pacific Northwest, Earl Renwick McMillan; Byron Matthew Bird 1924 Libraries worldwide that own item: 18 Series: Washington (State) University. Engineering Experiment Station. Engineering Experiment Station series.; Bulletin no. 28;

  20. McMillan, Bird Coal washing problems of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington Engineering Experiment Station Bulletin No. 28, 1924 Author is different Series “author” is different How the Cite and OCLC differed

  21. Author: university of washington engineering experiment

  22. Holdings of Bound Volumes

  23. Case 2: Who has the geoduck? Short, K.S. & R. Walton (1992) The transport and fate of suspended sediment plumes associated with commercial geoduck harvesting. Final Report. Prepared by Ebasco Environmental for the Washington Department of Natural Resources. 92p

  24. Where the search led

  25. What we had in the collection

  26. FOUND!!!

  27. Dear Librarian I am trying to find a copy of an old report written by the Secretary of Social and Health Services and the Commissioner of Employment Security. This report describes the system or systems in effect at that time for employer reporting…This report was due in January of 1989 to the Legislature. Case # 3 “It’s kinda like…”

  28. Dept. of Social and Health Services; Dept. of Employment Securities Report to the Legislature Date: around 1989 ?? Keywords: employer reporting The Clues

  29. First search

  30. Additional web sites • Google Uncle Sam http://www.google.com/unclesam • Washington State Library Catalog http://cals.evergreen.edu/search/ Shirley Dallas Washington State Library sdallas@secstate.wa.gov

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