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Presents a picture of federal libraries and information centers that provide a wide variety of services to their respective agencies as well as to the general public. Describes trends covering the period from FY1992 to FY1994 as reported in 1994 as part of the survey. This report classifies federal libraries and information centers in 5 different ways, according to their (1) organizational structure, (2) nature of parent organization, (3) mission/subject area, (4) public access, and (5) level of automation. The body of this report is organized into 3 chapters: (1) services, (2) collections and expenditures, and (3) staff. Includes 26 charts and tables.
This book explores the visual and material cultures of presidential commemoration--memorials and monuments, libraries and archives--and the problematic ways in which presidents themselves have largely taken over their own commemoration. The author sees these various commemorative sites as playing a key role in the construction of our collective political and cultural self-images and as another sign of our preoccupation with celebrity culture. Ultimately, he contends, these presidential temples reflect not only our civil religion but also the extraordinary expansion of executive authority--and presidential self-commemoration--since FDR.