Texas State Publications
1997 Annual Index
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The Texas State Publications 1997 Annual Index compiles the entries found in the 1997 monthly issues of Texas State Publications. Texas State Publications is a checklist of documents received by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission from state agencies, councils of government and institutions of higher education. The monthly checklist includes monographs, monographic series, annual and biennial serials, and new periodical titles; excluded from the checklist are items exempted from the depository program (job announcements, news releases, etc.) and individual issues of periodicals. The monthly checklist announces ephemeral materials at the end of each publishing entity's section under the heading "Leaflets." The annual index omits exempt items as well as the leaflets listed in the monthly issues.
ARRANGEMENT
The index has two parts: the first part lists publications by issuing agency, arranged alphabetically by the key word in the agency's name. Entries for agencies and councils and government are placed before entries for institutions of higher education. The agency list is split into three electronic files to aid in download operations: agencies by keyword beginning with A to H; agencies by keyword beginning with I to Y; and institutions of higher education. Entries in the agency listing provide the following information when available: issuing agency and its address; Texas document classification number; title; author; edition; publication date; pagination; frequency; series titles and number; title and contents notes; microfiche availability symbol; OCLC record number; depository availability symbol; and entry number.
The second part of the annual index is a subject list. The subject list uses the Library of Congress subject headings found on each entry's OCLC record. In addition, the following terms have been included in appropriate entries to facilitate identification of types of documents: annual reports, biennial reports, budgets, college catalogs, consultant contract reports, financial reports, legislative appropriations requests, periodicals (i.e. serials published more frequently than once per year), and strategic plans.
The subject list is arranged alphabetically by subject term, and within identical terms alphabetically by title. The alphabetical arrangement disregards punctuation and files "nothing before something." For example, the following terms will appear in this order:
WATER CONSERVATION PROJECTS. TEXAS. JEFFERSON COUNTY
WATER CONSERVATION. TEXAS
WATER CONSERVATION. TEXAS. COLORADO RIVER WATERSHED
WATER LEVELS. MEASUREMENT. EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
WATER. PERIODICALS
WATER. POLLUTION. LAW AND LEGISLATION. TEXAS
WATER. POLLUTION POTENTIAL. TEXAS
WATER. POLLUTION. TEXAS. AUSTIN
WATER QUALITY BIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
WATER QUALITY. CANADIAN RIVER WATERSHED
WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT
WATER UTILITIES
WATER-SUPPLY, AGRICULTURAL
WATER-SUPPLY ENGINEERING. TEXAS. EL PASO COUNTY
WATER-SUPPLY. MEASUREMENT. EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT. TEXAS. HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC.
The subject list is intended to be used in conjunction with the agency list. Each subject list entry includes the title or uniform title of the document, classification number and entry number. After the entry number of a specific document has been determined from the subject list, please search the agency list for the entry number to obtain more complete bibliographic information about the document.
DISTRIBUTION & AVAILABILITY
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission sends copies of the publications it receives to depository libraries whenever possible. The depository availability symbols, (D) or (N), indicate if the document was distributed. The symbol (D) indicates that the document is available at depository libraries throughout the state; the symbol (N) indicates that the document was not distributed to depository libraries, but may be available on loan from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission through interlibrary loan services. Please contact your local library's interlibrary loan department about borrowing documents from the Texas State Library.
Requests for permanent copies of documents must be directed to the issuing agency. Each entry in the agency list includes the agency's phone number and address for public information requests. Inclusion of a title in the index does not guarantee that an agency has copies available for general distribution.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
All the documents found here, plus many others, can be found in the Library Catalog of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, an online public access catalog that can be used with a web browser.
For more information about the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, use a web browser to visit our home page at:
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Comments or complaints regarding the programs and services of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission can be addressed to the Director and Librarian, P.O. Box 12927, Austin, Texas, 78711-2927, call 512-463-5460, or email at director.librarian@tsl.texas.gov.