For OLR Reports and other materials related to the Insurance and Real Estate Committee’s work, index headings include:
Related to insurance:
Ambulances
Child Care
Diseases
Drug Abuse and Control
Drugs
Emergency Medical Service
Health
Health Care Facilities
Home Care Services
Hospitals
Insurance – (subtopic folders for Casualty, Health, Health-Foreign Nations, Health-Managed Care, Health-Mandates, Health-MSAs, Health-Medicare Supplement Policies, Health-Reform, Health-Uncompensated Care, Homeowners’, Legal, Malpractice, Motor Vehicle, No Fault)
Medical Care
Mental Health
Mental Health Facilities
Motor Vehicles
Motorcycles
Nursing Homes
Pharmacies and Pharmacists
Traffic Accidents
Traffic Safety
Welfare-Medical Assistance (Medicaid)
Worker’s Compensation
Related to real estate:
Condominiums
Contractors – Home Improvement
Developers
Housing
Disasters
Easements
Eminent Domain
Foreclosure
Historic Conservation
Housing
Land-Acquisition and Development Rights
Land Use
Licensing-Real Estate
Mortgages
Planning and Zoning
Property
Redlining
Tax Exemptions
Taxes-Property
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.)