According to an “Action Alert” (NARA NEEDS YOUR HELP, 30 Jun 2006) from the National Coalition For History, cuts in the budget of the National Archives will cause a lot of cutbacks including:
IF YOU EVER HAVE MADE USE OF A COMPILATION OF THE PUBLIC PAPERS OF A PRESIDENT — BEGINNING NEXT YEAR THE VOLUMES WON’T BE PRODUCED ANY LONGER — for years NARA has compiled the collected public papers of the president (speeches, transcripts of press events etc.) into hardback volumes. No more.
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Here is a visual comparison of the slow output of recent volumes in the series…
http://pages.slu.edu/faculty/montrejr/papers/public_papers.html
Thanks for providing this link. I’d have to say it speaks volumes about publishing output.
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“And besides all that, what we need is a decentralized, distributed system of depositing electronic files to local libraries willing to host them.” — Daniel Cornwall, tipping his hat to Cato the Elder for the original quote.