U.S. Government Publication Ideological

Examines the forces that have deflected U.S. Government publication from becoming the public enterprise that Congress had conceived in the nineteenth century.

John Spencer Walters serves as department head for Government Information/Maps, as well as Regional Depository Librarian at the Merrill Library at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.

Introduction	vii
1 The Ideological Heritage	1	(28)
2 An Informing Function Consummated	29	(32)
3 Toward an Ideological Underpinning	61	(32)
4 Institutional Tensions	93	(36)
5 Toy Presses and the Rise of Fugitive U.S. Government Documents	129	(50)
6 Heretical Impulses: The Push for a Clearinghouse	179	(32)
7 The Republic of Federal Scientific Publication: The Not-So-Public Domain	211	(34)
Conclusion	245	(4)
Bibliography	249	(36)
Glossary	285	(2)
Index	287	(10)
About the Author	297

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U.S. Government Publication Ideological Development and Institutional Politics from the Founding to 1970

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