1. Our review of the legislative history indicates that technological advancements in the field of information compilation and dissemination have outstripped, in many instances, the expectation of Congress when it passed The Depository Library Act of 1962 (P.L. 87-579). Regardless of this anachronism, both this office and the Joint Committee on Printing have construed Title 44 to encompass Government information presented in electronic format, although electronic products are not expressly included within the definition of Government publications. “The fact that technology changes does not alter the purposes and policies that underlie the statutory scheme of Title 44, and should not be the means by which those purposes and policies are eviscerated” (Letter from Senator Wendell H. Ford, the past Chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing, to the Honorable Richard Darman, Director, Office of Management and Budget, April 6, 1989).
2. Informing the Nation: Federal Information Dissemination in an Electronic Age,1988