For OLR Reports and other materials related to the Human Services Committee’s work, index headings include:
Adult Day Care
Assisted Living
Child Care
Child Support
Developmental Disabilities, People With
Disabilities, People With
Diseases
Drugs-Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs
Drugs-Rehabilitation
Elderly
Emergency Medical Service
Families
Federal Assistance Programs
Food Stamps
Group Homes
Health Care Facilities
Hearing Impairment
Home Care Services
Housing-Elderly
Human Services
Insurance-Health-Managed Care
Insurance-Health-Medicare Supplement Policies
Insurance-Health-Reform
Insurance-Health-Uncompensated Care
Juveniles
Medical Care
Mental Health
Mental Health Facilities
Nursing Homes
Nutrition
Pharmacies and Pharmacists
Social Services
Social Services, CT Dept. of
Welfare
Welfare-(subtopic folders for Medical Assistance, SSI, Social Services, TANF, Work Programs)
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.)