The Documents Expediting Project, 1946–2004

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2019-06-18

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American Library Association

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47

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2

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8

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15

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The Documents Expediting Project (DocEx), an acquisition and distribution service for federal documents that operated out of the Library of Congress (LC) from 1946 to 2004, was an important source of non-depository items, second copies, and fugitive documents. In addition to distributing documents to subscribing libraries and other organizations, DocEx supplied documents to the Superintendent of Documents for inclusion in the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (MoCat). DocEx stands as a model of cooperation between libraries, library associations, LC, federal agencies, the Superintendent of Documents, and vendors to facilitate the acquisition and distribution of millions of documents that would otherwise have disappeared.

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Journal article published in DttP: Documents to the People, Vol 47, No 2 (Summer 2019)

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Documents Expediting Project, Library of Congress, Government publications, United States. Government Printing Office., Federal Depository Library Program

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Sinclair, G. (2019). The Documents Expediting Project, 1946-2004. DttP: Documents to the People 47(2): 8-15.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10125/62928

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27 pages

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https://journals.ala.org/index.php/dttp/issue/view/725

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This document is the accepted manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in DttP: Documents to the People. To access the final edited and published work see https://journals.ala.org/index.php/dttp/issue/view/725
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