academic institutions that provide online access to significant political collections. Knowledge of readily available political collections equips information specialists to better serve users. While government documents tend to report the beginning and the end of the political process, political ephemera, artifacts and manuscripts provide a deeper understanding of what happens in between. When they do, researchers and students benefit. Government documents librarians, special collections librarians and museum curators should collaborate. On Collaboration: Government Documents and Political Collections in Libraries and Museums
