Availability of TIAS and and U.S. Treaties and Other International Agreements

At this time, the Department of State is publishing the Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS) (S 9.10:, item number 0899) online for dissemination to libraries in the Federal Depository Library Program. The Department of State remains behind by several years in its publication of TIAS prints, but is making efforts to get up to date. The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) recognizes that the U.S. Treaties and Other International Agreements (S 9.12:, item number 0899-A) is on the Essential Titles List. and GPO has been working continuously with the Department of State on publications issues.

The last print issues distributed to Federal depository libraries were:

• Treaties and Other International Acts Series: TIAS 12854; and
• U.S. Treaties and Other International Agreements Vol. 35, Part 5 1983-1984.

The Department of State has electronically published over two hundred agreements in the Treaties and Other International Acts Series, beginning with TIAS 12855, and has posted these agreements on the Department’s Office of Treaty Affairs Web site. Library Technical Information Service will be cataloging and creating PURLs for these electronic versions. The records will be available for download in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications and via the Z39.50 gateway. The format for item number 0899 for Treaties and Other International Acts Series (slips) (S 9.10:) has been changed to P and EL to reflect the addition of the electronic version.

GPO will update the Federal depository library community regarding further developments.