Congressional Papers: Collection Development Policies

Abstract

The Documentation of Congress: Report of the Congressional ArchivistsRoundtable Task Force on Congressional Documentation presents a viable, working documentation strategy for the U.S. Congress. As part of the documentation strategy, the task force recommends the writing of a model policy statement for archival institutions collecting congressional papers. This article presents a model congressional papers collection development policy that can be appended to a repository's full collection development policy. The model is based on Faye Phillips, "Developing Collecting Policies for Manuscript Collections." The article includes discussion regarding ancillary persons or organizations to be collected in conjunction with congressional papers.

Planning a Congressional Archives at Loyola University Chicago

“…. a diverse community seeking God in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith" ( Of particular relevance and assistance for the process of writing a collecting policy were several articles and books by Faye Phillips including "Congressional Papers Collecting Polices" (Phillips, 1995) and Congressional Papers Management (Phillips, 1996). In addition, Managing Archival & Manuscript Repositories (Kurtz, 2004) was very helpful.…”