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Government Documents Department History
Letter from Congressman Jack Brooks to Carper W. Buckley, Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office requesting depository library designation for the Lamar State College of Technology Library
Letter from Carper W. Buckley, Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, to Congressman Jack Brooks acknowledging his request for depository library designation
Letter from Carper W. Buckley, Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, to Miss Julia Plummer, Lamar State College Librarian about Congressman Brooks' request for depository library designation and outlining the GPO's depository library requirements.
Statement of Acceptance of Designation as a Depository for United States Government Publications
Letter from Carper W. Buckley, Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, to Miss Julia Plummer, Lamar State College Librarian, designating the library as an official depository for government publications
Letter from Carper W. Buckley, Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, to Congressman Jack Brooks, informing him that the Lamar State college of Technology Library has qualified as an official depository for government publications, and that the designation has been accepted
Government Documents Department Timeline
1967-1968 • Lamar Tech Library • Social Science and Government Documents
Librarian: George Anne Monger
Major Purchases: Readex Microprint edition of United States Government Depository
Publications (1956-1968); Readex Microprint edition of Journals of the House of Commons, 1547-1900;
Krause reprint of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1861-1899
Gifts: Collection of official records of the House of Representatives from U.S.
Congressman Jack Brooks (including The Writings of George Washington, extensive runs of
Congressional Record and Statues at Large)
1968-1969 • Lamar Tech Library • Social Science and Government Documents
Librarian: George Anne Monger
Major Purchases: Presidential Papers of Arthur, Coolidge, Jackson, Johnson and Lincoln
through the Presidential Papers Series prepared by the Library of Congress (423 reels of microfilm)
1969-1970 • Lamar Tech Library • Social Science and Government Documents
Librarian: George Anne Monger
Major Purchases: 1860 census population schedules for AR, KY, MD, NC, TN, VA (223
reels of microfilm; James Polk papers in the Presidential Papers Series prepared by the Library
of Congress (67 reels of microfilm);Hearings of the Temporary National Economic Commission
”Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power” reprint edition (31 volumes); Readex Universal
Microviewer
Major Projects: Shelving increased to accommodate document periodical titles being returned
to the area from the Periodicals Center
1970-1971 • Lamar Tech Library • Social Science and Government Documents
Librarian: George Anne Monger
Notable Depository Items: National Atlas of the United States
Major Purchases: Reports on the Immigration Commission reprint (41 volume set)
Major Projects: Document periodical titles from the Science-Technology area are returned
to documents (except indexes and abstracts)
1971-1972 • Lamar Tech Library • Social Science and Government Documents
Librarian: George Anne Monger
Gifts: 1970 Census publication from Mr. J.B. Morris’s law library
Major Projects: Extensive shifting to accommodate the reclassification of the Department
of Commerce publications and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency; shelf reading
1972-1973 • Lamar Tech Library • Social Science and Government Documents
Librarian: George Anne Monger
Major Projects: Planning the new library building
Notes: Expressed the desire to discard older, seldom-used depository items included
in the microprint edition – project postponed because of employee turnover and building planning
1973-1974 • Lamar Tech Library • Social Science and Government Documents
Librarian: Karen Stoudenmier
Major Purchases: ERIC microfiche; Checklist of the United States Public Documents, 1789-1970
Notes: Librarian taught a six-week documents course through the Office of Continuing Education
1974-1975 • Lamar Tech Library • Social Science and Government Documents
Librarian: Karen Stoudenmier
Notable Depository Items: Cumulative Index to the Monthly Catalog, 1900-1971
1975-1976 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Karen Stoudenmier
1976-1977 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Karen Stoudenmier
Major Purchases: ASI microfilm; back run of Proceedings of the National Museum on microfilm
Notes: GPO federal inspection (Helen Holt, Inspector)
1977-1978 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Karen Stoudenmier
Major Purchases: Statistical reports from the Texas Industrial Commission for cities
in Jefferson, Orange, and Hardin Counties
1978-1979 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Pat Weaver-Meyers
Selection Rate: (75% Hardcopy; 25% Fiche)
Notes: Library cancels Readex subscription
1979-1980 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Pat Weaver-Meyers
Notes: GPO inspection (1 very good and 7 excellent ratings of the 8 categories considered)
1980-1981 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Marty Holland (JAN’81)
Gifts: Interstate Commerce Commission Reports Volume 1 (1887) – Volume 25 (1976) from
Beaumont Chamber of Commerce
1981-1982 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Marty Holland
1982-1983 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Marty Holland
Selection Rate: (26% Hardcopy; 74% Fiche)
1983-1984 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Marty Holland
Notable Depository Items: Manual of Guidelines for Depository Libraries (State);
Instructions to Depository Libraries (GPO)
Gifts: Received Criminal Justice Reference Collection (Hardcopy and NCJ Microfiche)
Selection Rate: (36% Hardcopy; 64% Fiche)
Major Projects: Completed pre-1976 TX DOCS project
1984-1985 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Marty Holland
Selection Rate: (30% Hardcopy; 70% Fiche)
Major Projects: Weeding and shifting; completed the integration of CJ documents
into the collection
1985-1986 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Marty Holland
Selection Rate: (30% Hardcopy; 70% Fiche)
Major Projects: Collection Development Policy Project and department manual completed
and approved by the GPO Inspector
Notes: All day Superintendent of Documents Inspection (5 Excellent; 1 Good)
1986-1987 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Marty Holland
Major Projects: Completely revised item-by-item selection (-53+64)
1987-1988 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Marty Holland
Notes: Reached department goal of zero growth
1988-1989 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Marty Holland
Major Projects: Linking Texas Documents; collection maintenance
Notes: Government Documents becomes part of Reference Department
1989-1990 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Bert Chapman
Major Purchases: ERIC; GPO CD-ROM Indexes
Selection Rate: 28%
Major Projects: Weeding in US Documents
1990-1991 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Bert Chapman
1991-1992 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Bert Chapman
1992-1993 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Bert Chapman
1993-1994 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Bert Chapman
Major Projects: Shifting Census Bureau publications; compiled detailed holdings
inventory of 7.5 minute US Geological Survey Texas topographical maps
Notes: approximately 2000 US Documents incorporated into OPAC
1994-1995 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Bert Chapman
1995-1996 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Janet Serice
Major Projects: Began inventory of Texas Documents
Notes: Installed public access station w/CD ROM in Government Documents
1996-1997 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
No information available
1997-1998 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
No information available
1998-1999 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
No information available
1999-2000 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Theresa Storey (FEB’00)
2000-2001 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Theresa Storey
Selection Rate: 46.21%
Major Projects: Weeding and cataloging in I, HH, ED, HE classes
Notes: Documents Librarian begins cataloging new documents
2001-2002 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Theresa Storey
Selection Rate: 45.5%
Major Projects: Weeding and cataloging in A, AC, AE, and D classes
2002-2003 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Theresa Storey
Major Purchases: 1920 and 1930 Census reels for Texas
Selection Rate: 51%
Major Projects: Weeding and cataloging in LC, J, EP, PREX, PRVP classes
Notes: Government Documents web page reorganized and launched (July 2003)
2003-2004 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Theresa Storey
Major Projects: Serials Binding Project completed
2005 • Mary and John Gray Library • Government Documents
Librarian: Theresa Storey
Major Purchases: State Reports for the Bureau of Freedmen for Texas
Selection Rate: 62%
Major Projects: Catalog EL titles and TD class; Shifting and re-labeling Documents
microfiche cabinets
Notes: Presented Constitution Day program “Re-Discovering the Constitution Online”
