St. Charles City-County Library District will select United States government documents
meeting the following criteria:
- Documents which meet the general information needs of the public in popular subject
areas.
- Documents which support the concentrated subject collections which currently exist
within the Library District-specifically, Local History and Business/Government Services.
- All documents specific to Missouri will be collected. Inclusion of other states will be
dependent upon subject interest.
- Due to space constraints, voluminous categories will be collected on microfiche and/or
CD-ROM if at all.
Scholarly and research information needs will be served through interlibrary loan from
the Regional Government Documents Depository and referrals to other Government Document
Depositories in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
Monographs and other material will be reviewed and selected items will be catalogued
and interfiled with the reference and circulating collections. Documents specific to the
subject areas of business, government, and local history will be cataloged and integrated
into the collections at the appropriate branches. Subject specialist will be consulted
when questions arise regarding collection or acquisitions. Retrieval of catalogued
documents will be through the Library District’s public access catalog in addition to
the documents indexes.
Some documents will be integrated into the pamphlet collection and circulated in the
same manner as other pamphlets.
The remainder of the documents will be maintained in Sudoc order with retrieval through
the Monthly Catalog, an automated index and/or online database searches.
No retrospective collecting will be attempted. Guidelines from the Regional Depository
Library will be adhered to when discarding documents. The library will comply with
Instructions for Depository Libraries and Guidelines for the Depository Library System.
The St. Charles City-County Library District will provide access to the government
documents collection for all residents of the Ninth Congressional District.
The Library District will annually review a segment of the items selected with respect
to the user population and use statistics. Selection of those items for which demand is
evidenced will continue. Additional selections will be made in response to patron needs.
(Adopted 2/12/90)
