Show Us the Data: The Most Wanted Government Documents

There have been many instances of National Forest maps being printed and made available for sale that have not been distributed to libraries through the Federal Depository Library Program. TITLE 44, CHAPTER 19, § 1902 states: Government publications, except those determined by their issuing components to be required for official use only or for strictly administrative or operational purposes which have no public interest or educational value and publications classified for reasons of national security, shall be made available to depository libraries through the facilities of the Superintendent of Documents for public information. Each component of the Government shall furnish the Superintendent of Documents a list of such publications it issued during the previous month, that were obtained from sources other than the Government Printing Office. This is not happening in the case of National Forest maps, and the problem needs to be corrected.