U.S. Government Printing Office

At the time, this 'report' was ahead of its time. AM was still looking for credibility and peer-reviewed journals, research was hard to find but it was there. I used this during my own research for my BA in Medical Anthro thesis.

PDFLC8 | The Superintendent of Documents classification system was developed in the Library of the Government Printing Office between 1895 and 1903. It was first described in October 1903 by William Leander Post, then in charge of the Library, in the preface to List of Publications of the Agriculture Department 1862-1902, Department List No. 1, issued by the Superintendent of Documents in 1904. Mr. Post gives credit for the foundation of the system (classification by governmental author) to show more Miss Adelaide R. Hasse, who used government organization authorship to assign classification numbers to a List of Publications of the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1841 to June 30. 1895. Miss Hasse prepared the list of assistant librarians in the Los Angeles Public Library. It was published by the Department of Agriculture in 1896 as its Library Bulletin No. 9, This system has expanded as the Federal Government has grown. Though still retaining the principles upon which it is based, it has changed in some details and methods of use. Because the classification system is based on the current organizational status of the government author, it changes as the organizational structure of the federal government changes. Thus, publications of some issuing agencies may be located in as many as three different places in the system. Despite this functional weakness, it has stood the test of time as a workable arrangement for uniquely identifying publications issued by the United States Government. The Superintendent of Documents classification system has been used for over 90 years to identify public documents which were distributed to depository libraries and described in the Monthly Catalog of U. S. Government Publications. The system is also used to arrange the document collections in most depository libraries, as well as in the document collection of the National Archives.|

Table of Contents

Introduction iii
Foreword v
Principles of the System 1
Author Symbols 1
Subordinate Offices 1
Series Designations 1
Related Series 2
Class Stem 3
Book Numbers 3
Special Treatment of Publications of Certain Authors 5
Boards, Commissions, and Committees 5
Congress and its Working Committees 6
Publications of the President and the Executive Office of the
President 7
Table I
Department and Agency Symbols Currently in Use 8
Table II
Agency Symbols of Boards, Commissions, and Committees
Established by Act of Congress 10
Table III
Agency Symbols of Current Congressional Committees 12
Table IV
Classification of Congressional Publications 14

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NT - Classification
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