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The WyDocs classification system was developed by Jerome B. Frobom about
1976, based upon SuDocs principles, with the collection arranged by issuing
agency. The scheme was refined by Elizabeth K. Agar between 1982 and 1990. Last
year I put WyDocs 1 into print, sending copies to the Library of Congress and
OCLC for validation. The WyDocs classification numbers will now remain as 086 2
wydocs on the OCLC master record.
This publication contains a primitive keyword index which was not present in
the previous edition. It is derived from the agency names but isn't by any
means comprehensive. It does ignore frequently used and overlapping generically
named programs like "Public Information", "Accounting and Administration",
"Research and Analysis" etc.
History notes were usually added where agency/division name changes
occurred. The information was drawn from the Wyoming Official Directory* (WOD)
and the Wyoming Blue Book (WBB), vol. 5, no. 2, "Guide to the State Government
and Municipal Archives of Wyoming". My thanks and respect goes to the staff
members of the Archives & Records Management Section, Division of Parks and
Cultural Resources, Dept. of Commerce in researching and compiling the guide.
Any errors of omission, relationship, or date coverage are to be considered
mine, rather than theirs. Please pass on to me any additions or corrections of
agency history that you have.
WARNING: Known locally as WyDocs 1.5 or 1 1/2 (depending on whom you talk
to), the WyDocs state documents classification system, 1st rev. ed., is limited
by the fact that not all agencies have complied with the 1989 state government
re-organization of executive branch agencies. This edition describes the system
as it existed as of the summer of 1993. When all executive branch agencies have
completed their re-organization plans, WyDocs 2 will be issued. [N.B. The
University of Wyoming portion of the classification schedule (UW) has not been
examined since its creation because it was felt that the University is the most
proper group to deal with its own name authority/history.] The Judicial Branch
agencies do not share the same depository obligations, so questions about their
publications should be routed through the State Law Librarian.
Since many independent departments, boards, and commissions have been
subsumed into a much smaller number of remaining departments, some
classification letters were inactivated, with cross-references to the
sub-agency number under the new parent agency's class letters. For some
agencies which have had a long history with many continuing publications and
that were placed under an umbrella organization (such as the Dept. of Commerce)
practicality may supersede purity in the classification schedule. Some of these
agencies, mostly occupational/ professional licensing boards, will retain their
original class letters with a note stating the name of the department or body
that governs them now. Governmental bodies which had not had a WyDocs number
assigned while they were independent and that deposit materials after their
re-organization will be catalogued as though they had always been under their
current parent body. Bracketed agency names and numbers indicate where the
State Library expects the agency to fall. It may not have ever received
publications from the agencies (older) or hasn't yet received/catalogued titles
from the agency (post-reorganization). Since this is a working document that
will change as the agencies change, check with the State Library's Technical
Services Section if you are curious as to which situation applies with a
particular agency or program.
Janet L. Williams
October 1993
* Years held by WSL: 1905, 1909, 1912-13, 1915-1917, biennially 1919-1977,
annually 1978-1993.
Created by Statewide Information Services, Wyoming State
Library, October 2002
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