Proposed regulations from the joint committee on printing: Patchwork remedies for complex problems

This section presents techniques, practices, and specific strategies by which documents collections can be made more effective. It also highlights individual documents collections and addresses issues pertinent to forthcoming government policies and regulations. The second article in this series presents a brief overview of new printing regulations proposed by the Joint Committee on Printing, U.S. Congress, in November 1983.This opinion essay discusses selected regulations, evaluates their importance, and considers their possible impacts. It also identifies a number of difficulties yet to be resolved by these regulations and suggests that improved access to government information will not result, by itself, from simply creating an additional set of patchwork regulations.