For OLR Reports and other materials related to the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee’s work, index headings include:
Assessment
Bonds
Budget-Federal
Budget-State
Corporations
Cost of Living
Economic Development
Economy
Education-Finance
Education-Higher-Finance
Education-Special-Finance
Federal-State Relations
Gambling-Lottery
Highways-Finance
Home Rule
Housing-Finance
Infrastructure
Motor Vehicles-Licenses
Motor Vehicles-Registration
Municipal Finance
Municipalities
Non-Profit Organizations
Revenue Services, Dept. of
Revenue Sharing
Schools-Construction
Social Enterprise Businesses
Special Districts
Special Revenue, Division on
Tax Exemptions
Tax Exemptions-Elderly
Tax Exemptions-Veterans
Taxation
Taxes-(subtopic folders for Alcohol, Capital Gains, Cigarette, Commuter, Estate, Gasoline, Income, Property, Sales)
Tolls
Tourism
Trusts and Estates
The library assigns topical index headings to all OLR Reports and keeps hard copies of the reports organized by these index headings. Reports from 1994 to the present are in the library’s file cabinets (aka the “vertical files”) in the red-tabbed folders, as well as online in full text. Older reports are in two sets of bound volumes (one set for the 1970s, and one for 1980-1993) on the library’s shelves.
The same index headings the library uses for OLR Reports have been used to organize over 600 subject files of materials such as newspaper clippings, court decisions, press releases, pamphlets, and other resources that would be more difficult to locate if they were dispersed throughout the library’s general collection. The subject files are in the blue-tabbed folders in the file cabinets. (Many of the items in these folders have also been digitized by the library, and their electronic versions can be found in the library’s intranet catalog.)