For OLR Reports and other materials related to the Environment Committee’s work, index headings include:
Agriculture
Animals – Law and Legislation
Beaches
Brownfields
Camps and Campgrounds
Carcinogens
Coastal Zone Management
Containers – Beverage
CT Resources Recovery Authority
Dairy Products
Dredging
Drinking Water
Energy – Renewable Resources
Energy and Environmental Protection – CT Dept. of
Energy Conservation
Fish and Game
Flood Control
Food Products
Gasoline
Gypsy Moths
Harbors
Hazardous Waste
Inland Wetlands
Land
Lead Poisoning
Litter
Long Island Sound
Marine Resources
Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority (MIRA)
Mining
Motor Vehicles – Emissions Control System
Natural Resources
Oil
Open Space
Parks and Forests
Pesticides
Pollution – Air
Pollution – Water
Pollution Control
Property
Radioactive Waste
Recreation
Rivers
Road Salt
Rural Development
Soil Conservation
Solid Waste Management
Toxic Substances
Trees
Veterinary Medicine
Water and Related Resources
Watershed Land
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.)