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Why Not Check the Catalog

JoanShear | 19 April, 2007 18:55

Question: Student had a cite to: Comptroller, Federal Protection and Preservation of Wild and Scenic Rivers Is Slow and Costly (1978) from the GAO.

Answer: This GAO report is too old to be on the web, but we have some GAO reports in microfiche so we went to the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications in our online databases and searched for title, "Federal Protection and Preservation of Wild and Scenic Rivers." to find SuDoc Number GA 1.13:CED-78-96. In our microfiche collection GA 1.13:CED begins with 78-146, just a little after the fiche we need. Wondering if our main library’s collection contained this document we did a SuDoc search and discovered not only that they not only have this in fiche, but also that if we had initially done a title search in the catalog we would have found it immediately.


Why Not Check the Catalog

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