For OLR Reports and other materials related to the Education Committee’s work, index headings include:
Education-(subtopic folders for Adult, Bilingual, Boards of, Choice Programs, CT Dept. of, Desegregation, Discipline, Finance, Head Start, Regional, Special, Special-Finance, Testing, and Vocational/Technical)
Education Commission Of The States
Educational Guidance
Educational Law And Legislation
School Administrators
School Attendance
School Employees
Schools-(subtopic folders for Construction, Health, Private, Transportation, Violence)
Teachers-(subtopic folders for Certification and Evaluation, Compensation, Labor Negotiations, Retirement)
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.)