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GGD-95-243R 1 (1995-09-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackyf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-266194 September 20, 1995 The Honorable Richard C. Shelby United States Senate The Honorable William F. Clinger, Jr. Chairman, Committee on Government Reform and Oversight House of Representatives The Honorable Bill Emerson House of Representatives This letter responds to your request that we identify federal government documents (excluding documents of the Departments of Defense and State) that are published in languages other than English. We found that no single, comprehensive data source existed within the federal government that could identify and quantify the total number of foreign language publications and documents issued both internally and externally by federal government agencies and organizations. However, we were able to identify two computerized databases containing information on publicly available publications and documents issued by federal agencies and organizations. The databases we identified were (1) the Government Printing Office's (GPO) monthly catalog of publications and (2) the National Technical Information Service's (NTIS) bibliographic database. In total, for the 5-year period, 1990 through 1994, the two databases contained over 400,000 records pertaining to federal agencies' reports, studies, fact sheets, maps, handbooks, conference proceedings, etc. Table 1 presents the results of our searching these two databases for the 5-year period, 1990 through 1994. We identified 265 federal foreign language documents in the databases. The table presents, by federal department or agency, the number and percentage of foreign language documents published and available for distribution from these two data sources. As indicated in table 1, the federal agency that issued the greatest number of federal documents printed in a foreign language was the Social Security Administration. We identified 50 documents, or 19 percent of the 265 foreign language documents, as issued by the Social Security Administration. GAO/GGD-95-243R, Federal Foreign Language Documents

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