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TITLE 13CULTURAL RESOURCES
PART 1TEXAS STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 3STATE PUBLICATIONS DEPOSITORY PROGRAM
RULE §3.5Standard Exemptions for State Publications in All Formats

The following publications are exempt from the State Publications Depository Program and shall not be provided to the commission:

  (1) agendas;

  (2) advertisements;

  (3) alumni materials;

  (4) announcements;

  (5) artwork (graphical representations without textual information);

  (6) calendars;

  (7) codes (as compendia);

  (8) complex relational databases;

  (9) contracts;

  (10) correspondence;

  (11) course schedules and materials;

  (12) curriculum catalogs (departmental only);

  (13) drafts of plans, reports;

  (14) fiction;

  (15) forms and instruction manuals for their completion;

  (16) fund raising materials;

  (17) grant proposals, bids;

  (18) hearings (transcripts of);

  (19) job listings;

  (20) laws (as compendia);

  (21) literary criticisms;

  (22) memorabilia;

  (23) memoranda (including e-mail);

  (24) news or press releases;

  (25) newsletters and subscriber lists meant only for employee, faculty or student use;

  (26) non-fiction university press publications not aligned with the commission's collection development policy;

  (27) notices of sale;

  (28) opinions and orders issued by state courts;

  (29) daily or weekly periodicals (that are summarized in monthly or quarterly publications);

  (30) personnel manuals;

  (31) photographs;

  (32) poetry;

  (33) policy handbooks intended only for internal use;

  (34) programs (announcements of events, training sessions);

  (35) recruitment materials;

  (36) reprints (reissued without change);

  (37) rules and regulations after 1976 (as compendia);

  (38) standards (as compendia);

  (39) stationery;

  (40) student publications (those produced by students);

  (41) telephone directories meant only for employee, faculty, or student use;

  (42) training materials;

  (43) unedited compilations of data or information submitted via forms or other means from individuals or entities under the regulation of a state agency; and

  (44) volunteer newsletters.


Source Note: The provisions of this §3.5 adopted to be effective November 18, 2015, 40 TexReg 8021; amended to be effective August 29, 2023, 48 TexReg 4638

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