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Arkansas State Library Depository Program

How and when to deposit official NWACC Publications with the Arkansas State Library

Types of Publications to Submit

  • Annual or biennial reports
  • Annual operating budget
  • Financial annual reports
  • Materials from conferences, trainings, workshops or seminars such as published proceedings or instructional manuals
  • Directories or rosters of facilities, services or personnel
  • Laws, rules and regulations, and licensing standards
  • Lists of publications like bibliographies or catalogs
  • Minutes of governing board meetings
  • Periodicals like magazines, newsletters, newspapers, news releases
  • Publications financed by the sale thereof

Exempt Publications

All Agencies:

  • Correspondence, including intra- and interoffice communications
  • Monthly or quarterly financial reports
  • Grant proposals
  • Bids and specifications
  • Advertising and registration information
  • Reprints
  • Publications listed in the Arkansas General Records Retention Schedule, with some exceptions (e.g. Minutes)

Educational Institutions:

  • Development funds materials
  • Calendars and schedules of athletic events, rosters of team listings or athletic records
  • Non-serial pamphlets and brochures
  • Recruitment materials
  • Yearbooks
  • Student Newspapers

Information Publications to Submit

  • Annual or biennial reports
  • Annual operating budget
  • Financial annual reports
  • Materials from conferences, trainings, workshops or seminars such as published proceedings or instructional manuals
  • Directories or rosters of facilities, services or personnel
  • Laws, rules and regulations, and licensing standards
  • Lists of publications like bibliographies or catalogs
  • Minutes of governing board meetings
  • Periodicals like magazines, newsletters, newspapers, news releases
  • Publications financed by the sale thereof

Definition of Arkansas Documents

State and local documents are... “any publication issued in print or non-print format by any Arkansas state agency or local government.”

“Document" and "publication" are used interchangeably.