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State Documents
State Depository Program
Background
In 1966, the Mississippi Legislature established a depository system for state publications and created the position of Recorder of Public Documents in the office of the Secretary of State. The statutes were amended in 1975 to move the state depository program and the Recorder of Public Documents position to the Mississippi Library Commission.
Purpose
- To create and maintain an archival collection of state agencies' publications
- To provide access to the written results of the state agencies' work and research
- To provide statewide access to state agencies publications through the network of depository libraries
- To fulfill the public's right to know how their government is operating and their tax dollars are being spent
Definition of a State Document:
Any item published by the state government, for the state government, or at state government expense, and which would be available without charge upon request from any person other than employees of the producing agency and bears the imprint of producing agency.
Responsibilities of State Agencies & Depository Libraries
The cooperation of state agencies and depository libraries is essential to the success of the depository program. The Mississippi Code Annotated of 1972 [25-51-3] states that "All agencies of state government shall furnish to the director of the Mississippi Library Commission sufficient copies of each public document printed . . ."
Depository libraries have the equally important responsibility of ensuring that those documents are made easily accessible to the general public.
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State Documents Depository Program
State Documents Online
State Documents Publication Index
State Documents Depository Libraries
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