v Contents Foreword by Gwen Sinclair xvii Introduction xix Chapter 1 The Shape of United States Government Information 1 Early Founders and Access to Government Information 2 Challenges to Free Access 2 Government Documents or Government Information? 3 What Do Users Want? 4 The Formats of Government Information 5 Document Topics 6 Document Types 7 Organization of Government/Organization of Publications 9 Superintendent of Documents Classification System 10 Government Publications, Print Collections, and Online Access 17 Competencies of Government Information Professionals 18 Using Google to Find Government Information 18 Testing Government Database Exposure in Google 19 Records in Library Catalogs 21 Domain Searching 22 File Type Searching 25 Direct versus Indirect Google Searching 26 HathiTrust, Internet Archive, and Government Publications 27 Exercises 30 References 31
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