GUIDE- U.S. Congressional Committee Prints

Contents

Congressional Committee Prints are publications issued by Congressional Committees on topics related to their legislative and research activities.  The scope of Committee Prints varies greatly due to the different concerns and actions of each committee or subcommittee.  The Prints include: draft reports and bills, directories, statistical materials, historical reports, situational studies, and hearings and legislative analyses. 

The US Congressional Committee Prints Collection contains over 15, 000 committee prints, with studies on topics of public concern forming the largest group in the set. This non-depository collection covers the time period of the mid 1800’s to 1969 with the major part of the collection falling in the post World War II period. There are a category of publications excluded from the collection due to their volume, availability from other sources, and lack of substantive content. Some of these items are: annual directories, parliamentary manuals, Republican Policy Committee and Democratic Steering Committee publications, staff notes duplicated for limited distribution, codes of law except the Internal Revenue Code, or publications that are purely housekeeping items of the committees. The Prints do not have a consistent numbering system or publication history and are not cross duplicated between other Congressional Information Service (CIS) research series. Beginning with 1970 committees prints are included in the CIS Index to Publications of U.S. Congress.

Indexes

Congressional Committee Prints Index from the Earliest Publications through 1969 (located in the Government Publications and Map Department Reference room under the call number 015.73 C749C Volumes 1-5 ) is divided into several parts as follows:

Reference Bibliography (two volumes), a list of bibliographic and annotations for all publications.

Index by Subject and Name (two volumes), indexes the Prints alphaberically by subject area, personal names, author names (both individual and corporate), names of committees and subcommittees, and official popular names of bills and laws

Finding Aid (one volume), an index of indexes by the following areas:

Index by Titles list titles alphabetically in natural word order.

Index by Congress and Committee lists committee prints titles alphabetically by issuing committee for each Congress.

Index by Superintendent of Documents (SuDoc) number lists GPO–assigned Superintendent of Documents (SuDoc) numbers for al prints so classified.

Holdings

US Congressional Committee Prints Collection is an unclassed microfiche collection provided by Congressional Information Service, Inc. The collection is held in the microfiche cabinets in the Government Publications and Maps Department.
 

Northwestern University

University Library

Governement Publications and Maps Department

Summer 2004