U.S. Congress. Congress Committee Prints. 8592 Fiche.
- Location: McKeldin Library
Call Number: Microfiche
Description
This collection provides access to most Committee prints issued by Congress from mid-nineteenth century through 1969.
Indexing for the prints is provided in the following ways: by author or main entry, by title, by chronology according to Congress, Session and year; by code number, by committee and Congress, by bill number, by subjects and names, and by superintendent of documents number.
The microfiche are arranged by codes which appear in each bibliographic citation., They designate House prints (H), Joint Committee prints (J) and Senate prints (S). These alphanumeric code sequences are filed separately.
Committee prints are not strictly Congressional documents, but rather publications of Congressional committees. They are printed at the direction of the chair of a committee, not by order of the House or Senate as a body.
They are usually original studies or compendia of data prepared by research staffs or independent organizations under government contract. They provide information about subjects under investigation by Congressional committees and are inteded primarily for internal use. The committees must heavily represented are Senate: Foreign Relations, Interior and Insular Affairs, Judiciary, Labor and Public Welfare and House: Foreign Affairs, Un-America Activities, government Operations, and Veterans Affairs. The prints in this collectin were filmed from holding of the United States Senate Library and other Senate committee sources, the Library of Congress and the National Archives.
Index/Guide
The following source provides more detailed information about the contents of each microfilm reel in the collection:- Doc Z7165.U5B52 1980 Folio.
- CIS U.S. Congressional Committee Prints Index. 5 v.
