CONGRESSIONAL MASTERFILE CD-ROM

What It Does

• Indexes:
  • Committee Hearings (testimony)
  • Committee Prints (research reports)
  • Committee Reports (recommendations on bills)
  • House and Senate Documents (communications from Executive Branch)
  • Public Laws
• Time coverage: 1789-present
• Navigation Protocols
  • Highlight numerous on-screen instructions and press ENTER
  • Function keys at bottom
  • Return to previous page by pressing ESCAPE

Location

• Documents Center
• CD-ROM to be networked in January 1996
• Corresponding paper copy of various indexes located in Documents Center--Docs. Ref. section

Booting Up

• CD-ROM initially boots up to the current years
• Highlight Change Search Range and press ENTER to change the years of coverage or limit searching to type of document
• Highlight Full search to begin searching

Search Range:        Congressional Masterfile               F1=Help
All Records                                                 F2=Command Menu
1983-1995

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Search Protocols:

• Boolean logic
  • this word AND that word
  • this word OR that word
  • this word NOT that word
• An initial search set may be combined with a new search:
  • [1] and [2] and Bosnia
• Phrase searching assumed when two words together
  • war crimes
• Truncation is a *
  • war crim* picks up war crime, war crimes, war criminals

   ------------ENTERING SEARCH STATEMENTS----------------------------------                                 
    New Searchers:                        Expert Searchers:
           
     Type single term or                  Combine terms or search sets 
     phrase, press ENTER,                 with AND, OR, or NOT. Examples:
     and select option                      1. LITERACY OR ADULT EDUCATION
     from Refine Search                     2. [1] AND UNEMPLOYMENT
     menu to add terms,                     3. (CARS OR TRUCKS) AND FUEL)
     narrow, broaden, or
     execute search.                      Type field names, in square
                                          brackets, after search term.
     For help, press F1                   EXAMPLE: CHILD CARE [in Title]

               Type Search Terms(s):

               WAR CRIM* AND (BOSNIA OR YUGOSLAVIA)

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Editing Search Statements

• Search statements may be edited before or after a search by using special function keys.
  • F8 changes the search range range
    • Years
    • Type of document (hearing, print, report, document, law, all)
    • Switch disks (the set includes three disks)
  • F4 provides two approaches to subject terms
    • Whenever selecting a subject term from the thesaurus to edit a search statement, be sure to type in the Boolean operator (e.g. AND)
• Function Keys:

  
                  Command Menu
  
                  F1         Help
                  F2         Command Menu
                  F3         Search Action
                  F4         Search Indexes
                  F5         Main Menu
                  F6         Mark/Unmark Records
                  F7         Print or Save
                  F8         Change Year or Record Range
                  F9         Record Display Options
                  F10        Restart System
                  Q           Quit
  

Title List

• CMF will display the results of a search in the form of a title list.
• The title list is arranged from the most current to the oldest.
• Information includes title, Congress and Session, type of publication, abstract (microfiche) number, and SUDOC (paper copy) number.

  1994 CIS Publications                                                     
    Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs              
        Appropriations Act, 1995; Foreign Operations, Export                
        Financing,... (103-2; Legislative History)                          
          94-PL103-306                                                      
  1993 CIS Publications                                                     
    Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: European Perspective on         
        Bosnian Conflict.                                                   
        (103-1; Hearing)                                                    
          93-J891-19  [SuDoc Y4.SE2:103-1-3]                                
    Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: War Crimes and the              
        Humanitarian Crisis in the Former Yugoslavia.                       
        (103-1; Hearing)                                                    
          93-J891-21  [SuDoc Y4.SE2:103-1-1]                                

Full Record Display

• The full record of the publication with an abstract or summary of contents can be displayed by highlighting any line in the title list for that particular publication.

CIS NO: 93-J891-19*
 TITLE: Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: European Perspective on
     Bosnian Conflict.
 SOURCE: Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: iii+263 p.
 DATE: Feb. 22, 1993
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 103-1             SUDOC: Y4.SE2:103-1-3*
 ITEM NO: 1089-C; 1089-D
 MC ENTRY NO: 93-22759

 Committee Serial No. CSCE 103-1-3. Hearing before the Commission on
 Security and Cooperation in Europe to review the status of the war between
 Serb and non-Serb forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and to examine needed U.S.
 and international response.
   Hearing is part of Commission's continuing oversight of Helsinki
 Agreement implementation.
   Supplementary material (p. 31-263) includes submitted statements and a
 witness's written statement.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Bosnia-Herzegovina civil conflict status and US policy
     issues
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (Civil
     conflict status and US policy issues); SERBIA; MINORITY GROUPS; CIVIL
     WAR; FOREIGN.RELATIONS; MILITARY.ASSISTANCE;
     INTERNATIONAL.MILITARY.FORCES; HELSINKI AGREEMENT; COMMISSION ON
     SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE

 93-J891-19 TESTIMONY NO: 1         Feb. 22, 1993 p. 3-28, 36-263
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     KANDEMIR, NUZHET (Ambassador to the U.S., Turkey)
     DYVIG, PETER (Ambassador to the U.S., Denmark)
     TUERK, HELMUT (Ambassador to the U.S., Austria; representing
        Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE))
     VAN AGT, ANDREA (Delegation Head, Commission of the European
        Communities)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Review of the situation in Bosnia and needed
     U.S. and international response, with review of UN and European
     Community efforts; details of human rights abuses observed in Bosnia as
     a CSCE rapporteur; issues involved in resolution of the Bosnian
     conflict.
 INSERTION: 
     -- Correll, Hans (et al., CSCE), "Proposal for an International War
        Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia" Feb. 9, 1993 (p. 45-263).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Bosnia-Herzegovina civil conflict status and US policy
     issues
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): EUROPE; UNITED NATIONS; WAR
     CRIMES ("Proposal for an International War Crimes Tribunal for the
     Former Yugoslavia"); INTERNATIONAL.AGENCIES ("Proposal for an
     International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia");
     CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE; EUROPEAN COMMUNITY;
     HUMAN RIGHTS

Printing/Downloading

• The individual publication records may be printed or downloaded in several different formats using the F7 command.

Location of publications listed in CMF:

• Microfiche in Documents Center using the CMF abstract number (e.g. 93-J891-19)
• Paper copy
  • Hearings and Committee Prints
    • Last six years located in the Documents Center under the SUDOCS number (e.g. Y4.SE 2:103-1-3)
    • Those issued 1973-88 MAY be located in the Buhr Building; check the Documents Center Congressional catalog by committe name and title to verify Buhr location
    • Those issued before 1973 may either be located in the stacks or Buhr under a Library of Congress call number
      • Check the Documents Center Congressional catalog by committee and title to obtain call number; check MIRLYN by call number to verify whether it is in Buhr or the Graduate Library stacks
  • House and Senate Reports and Documents
    • Last three years located in Documents Center under Y1 numbers located in the Documents Center under their Y1 numbers
    • Older issues are in the Serial Set on 6 South or in Buhr
      • Use CIS US Serial Set Index (Doc.Cen. Z 1223.Z7 C764-Doc.Ref.) for publications issued through 1969 and Numerical Lists (Doc.Cen. Z 1223 .A15-Doc.Ref.) for those after 1969 to identify bound volume number

Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
The University of Michigan Library
Send comments and suggestions to graceyor@umich.edu

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/cmf.html
Last updated on January 21, 1996

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