For OLR Reports and other materials related to the Energy and Technology Committee’s work, index headings include:
Civil Preparedness – Nuclear Accidents
Coal
CT Siting Council
Daylight Saving Time
Disasters
Easements
Energy-(subtopic folders for Agencies and Planning, Assistance, Conservation, Hydroelectric, Legislation and Policy, Nuclear, Renewable Resources, and Solar)
Energy and Environmental Protection – CT Dept. of
Fuel Cost Adjustment
Land
Long Island Sound
Metropolitan District Commission
Oil
Oil Refineries
Pollution Control
Power Plants
Quasi-Public Agencies
Science and Technology
Telecommunications
Television
Television-Cable
Utilities-(subtopic folders for Electric, Electric-Restructuring, Natural Gas, Rates, Telephone, Water Companies)
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.)