Finding Government Gray Literature

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Finding Government Gray Literature
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Gray Literature

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

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When I talk about government publications
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All Government Publications Look Alike
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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

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All Government Publications Have the Same Title
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All Agencies Have the Same Name

• Corporate name cataloging protocols
• Abbreviations for agencies
• Agencies change names
• Call numbers built from agency

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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

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Finding Aids

• Google
• Ask George /Find-it
• Internet web sites
• Books

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WA Govt Search Engines

• http//find-it.wa.gov/search.asp

http//access.wa.gov
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WA FIND-IT GOOGLE
In October 2005 !
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Internet Finding Aids
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Print Finding Aid Andriots
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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

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Title and Agency Search in OCLC
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Results
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Real Cases
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Case 1 The cat sep

• McMillan, Bird
• Coal washing problems of the Pacific Northwest,
  University of Washington Engineering Experiment
  Station Bulletin No. 28, 1924

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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

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How the Cite and OCLC differed

• 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

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Author university of washington engineering
experiment
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Holdings of Bound Volumes
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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

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Where the search led
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What we had in the collection
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FOUND!!!
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Case 3 Its kinda like

• 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
  reportingThis report was due in January of 1989
  to the Legislature.

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The Clues

• Dept. of Social and Health Services Dept. of
  Employment Securities
• Report to the Legislature
• Date around 1989 ??
• Keywords employer reporting

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First search
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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_at_secstate.wa.gov