The idea was to prepare instructions and information for the guidance of our 
current and future student workers, staff, and librarians who might need to know 
how to do the clerical work of govdocs on an emergency, interim, or permament 
basis.

We are currently a 21% depository, small college, using Marcive tapeloads 
including shipping lists but excluding serials, on an Innovative Interfaces system 
that has a Netscape version, but also still has a Telnet version which we use for 
our check-in and other tech work.

Not included in these files are locally important computer files of materials 
available online from the FDLP site, especially our current Standing Order item 
list. Nor have I included our Self-Study, available elsewhere on the GODORT 
exchange. 

I have removed passwords <xxxxx>, inside jokes, and local references wherever 
possible.

Credit and blame: It is difficult to express as percentages how much my two 
predecessors contributed relative to each other and relative to whatever sources 
they may have utliized. Certainly, much credit for the most basic instructions 
(fiche and "beyond fiche") belongs to them and their sources. I corrected outright 
errors, updated to reflect technical changes, tinkered with syntax. Neither of my 
predecessors are currently in the govdoc business and would have no reason to 
appreciate having their names bandied for credit or blame.

At every institution, great and small, that I know anything about, there is some 
degree of "informality" and imperfection with regard to the exact letter of GPO 
Guidelines. Some that I discovered here in November 1997 seemed to me to be 
appalling and dangerous and I corrected them at once. Others "bothered" me, 
but not having found handy paradigms in these areas at other institutions, I have 
"let them ride," for now. I read somewhere that the official policy of the 
GPO/FDLP is that all the rules are equally important and there is no official list of 
things that it is "all right" to mess up if there are staff and financial and 
institutional reasons
for not doing everything correctly. Well. . .judge for yourself.

So I take full credit and blame as EDITOR of and incumbent policy-maker for 
what you are about to receive.