This document reports the results of the evaluation study commissioned in response to the Government Information Locator Service (GILS) Board's request for an assessment of GILS. The study began in September 1996, data collection ended in March 1997, and the final report was completed in June 1997. The goal of the study was to understand how: GILS serves various user groups, GILS improves public access to government information, agencies are progressing with their implementations, and GILS works as a tool for information resources management.

This paper discusses application of qualitative and quantitative content analysis techniques to assess metadata records from 42 Federal agencies' implementation of the Government Information Locator Service (GILS).

Play with 9 acts written in Garo.

Book of 11 traditional stories translated into Garo including Sinbad and Cinderella.

Book about Indian history used to teach middle school including 53 lessons and a timeline of major leaders spanning 1740-1982.

Book of Bible translations and commentary.

Article discussing book jackets as access mechanisms. Models of document searching and book jacket design are discussed in relation to the individual scholarly searcher and new modes of document searching.

Article on enhancing assignment completion in academically diverse vocational classes.

Elicitation of common nouns including body parts, family members, household items, clothing, and the natural world, and question words. Kushal Singh helps translate. Recorded in the Altodi Raji hamlet.

Elicitation of simple sentences in Raji including pronouns, grammatical gender, negation, and interrogatives. Recorded in Bhagichaura.

Field notes from elicitations of common nouns (body parts, family members, colors, natural objects) and sentence structure. Sentence examples demonstrate negation, interrogatives, conditionals, and pronouns in Raji.

Recording of family members talking informally about dreams, sleeping, and visiting. Thangpuii is the main speaker, but she is interrupted by the rest of the family making small talk and offering to help with her swollen joints. Visitors and family members are talking in the background.

Recording of a story about a historical figure named Darphawka. During the story, Thangi interjects to ask questions. Conversations like this will be valuable for Mizo language teachers to give their students a model for naturalistic speech because they do not follow the prescriptive rules.

Book about Greek mythology translated into Garo.

Book about Garo culture and poetry.

Account of the history and classification of the Garo language which surveys existing material in Garo and compares Garo grammar and vocabulary with related languages (Tibetan, Kachari, Rabha, Assamese, etc.). Includes partial handwritten English translations.

Grammar of Garo language including lessons on the writing system, parts of speech, case, and the structure of noun and verb phrases.

Book of word lists and sample sentences used for teaching the Garo language as a subject in primary schools.

Book of Garo folk tales.

Book of 8 chapters in Angami Naga about cultural traditions such as rituals and festivals.

This is a dictionary of Old Manipuri written in the Bengali script.

Article from the proceedings of the 1998 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium. This article discusses modeling utilization of planned information technology.

This is a collection of Kom folklore compiled by M. Telen, including stories about characters such as Bingpu, Achik, and Nempi, and descriptions of taboos.

"Call Number, the newsletter of the School of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas, is distributed three times a year" (p. 2). The periodical contains information about professors, news in the department, and the school's alumni.