For OLR Reports and other materials related to the Commerce Committee’s work, index headings include:
Brownfields
CT Development Authority
CT Innovations Inc.
Corporations
Developers
Economic Development
Economy
Education-Vocational/Technical
Eminent Domain
Employment
Enterprise Zones
Franchising
Harbors
Information Systems and Data Processing
Information Technology-Internet
Infrastructure
Job Development
Labor Supply
Land-Acquisition and Development Rights
Land Use
Non-Profit Organizations
Planning and Zoning
Restaurants
Retail Trade
Ships and Shipping
Small Business
Sports-Stadium Issues
Taxation
Taxes-Property
Taxes-Sales
Telecommunications
Tourism
Trade-International
Urban Development
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.)