Abstract Throughout the United States, selective depository libraries withdraw and dispose
of older materials. By law, these materials must be made available to other libraries, as they
are still federal property. Lists are drawn up of withdrawn materials and shared with the
regional depository and other depositories in the region. This paper explores the issues that
arise when an electronic list of available materials is planned. When considering an
electronic forum, the format of the records and the method of searching those records must …