For OLR Reports and other materials related to the Government Administration and Elections Committee’s work, index headings include:
Administrative Services, CT Dept. of
Campaigns
Campaigns-Finance
Campaigns-Public-Financing
Census
Code of Ethics
Conflict of Interest
Constitutional Amendments
Constitutional Convention
Constitutional Law
Construction Contracts
Dual Job Ban
Elections
Elections Commission
Ethics Commission
Federal-State Relations
Freedom of Information
Government-Local
Government Property
Government Purchasing
Government-Regional
Government-State-Reorganization
Home Rule
Interstate Compacts
Legislators
Lobbyists
Municipal Officials and Employees
Municipalities
Political Committees and Conventions
Primaries
Privatization
Program Evaluation and Review
Properties Review Board, State
Proportional Representation
Public Employees-Political Activity
Public Works-CT Dept. of
Quasi-Public Agencies
Reapportionment
Referenda
Regional Planning
Special Districts
Voters-Registration of
Voting
Voting-Absentee
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.)