Documents Without Shelves:

Links from your catalog to US government documents

Joan Chapa

Documents Without Shelves

What message is your catalog giving patrons about government documents?

Provide access to timely government information

…without having to shelve a thing!• All MARC records containing URLs or

PURLs• Can receive any record with a URL or limit

to “Internet-only” titles• General (all titles) or law library (subset)• Backfile available

What is covered in Documents Without Shelves?

• Agriculture• Business• Commerce• Consumer information• Medicine• Defense• Criminal justice• Education• National parks, maps, foreign relations,

taxation…and lots more

Who gets Documents Without Shelves?

• Academic libraries• Public libraries• Corporate libraries• Law libraries• Governmental libraries• Libraries with a need for government

information but without the shelf space to store them

How many records would you receive?

• Backfile available• As of December 2009 are 122,575 records with

URLS. 59,186 are “Internet only” titles

Ongoing service Standard Service: Average # of

records per month

Law Subset: Average # of records per month

Online only, new only 934 375Online only, new & changed 1,227 561All URLs/PURLs, new only 1,027 400All URLs/PURLs, new & changed 1,403 623

Sample record

Wind power [electronic resource] ; today & tomorrow / produced for the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

MOCAT # / REC #: 99154340 OCLC #: ocm55858161ITEM #: 0429-A (online) SUDOCS #: E 1.2:2004023750 TITLE: Wind power [electronic resource] : today & tomorrow / produced for the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. PUBLICATION INFO: Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program, [2004] NOTE: Mode of access: Internet from the NREL web site. Address as of 7/7/04: http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti /34915.pdf; current access available via PURL. NOTE: Title from title screen (viewed on July 7, 2004). SUBJECT: Wind power - United States. SUBJECT: Wind power industry - United States. SUBJECT: Wind Energy Program (U.S.) OTHER AGENCY: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.) OTHER AGENCY: Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program (U.S.) WEB ACCESS: http://purl.access.gpo.gov /GPO/LPS51287

Why load these records into your catalog?

• More access points• No need to bookmark websites• No need to download one by one and edit• ARL libraries can include them in statistics• Inexpensive way to add a lot of resources

Cost of Documents Without Shelves

• Backfile available at $0.05/bib record• Consortium pricing available• Options include matching authority records• Ongoing subscription is charged at

$1,525/year or $1,575/year with a report

Let MARCIVE help you provide better access to government information!

For more detailed information, contact

info@marcive.com or 1-800-531-7678.