The Director and Librarian has exempted from deposit requirements certain kinds of state publications distributed in print format. A state agency is not required to deposit these state publications in print format:

1. (1) agendas;
2. (2) advertisements;
3. (3) alumni materials;
4. (4) announcements;
5. (5) artwork;
6. (6) calendars;
7. (7) contracts;
8. (8) correspondence;
9. (9) course schedules;
10. (10) certain curriculum catalogs (departmental only);
11. (11) drafts of plans, reports;
12. (12) fiction;
13. (13) forms;
14. (14) fund raising materials;
15. (15) grant proposals, bids;
16. (16) hearings (transcripts of);
17. (17) job listings;
18. (18) literary criticisms;
19. (19) memorabilia;
20. (20) memoranda (including e-mail);
21. (21) news or press releases;
22. (22) newsletters and mailing lists meant only for employee, faculty or student use;
23. (23) notices of sale;
24. (24) daily or weekly periodicals (which are summarized in monthly or quarterly publications);
25. (25) personnel manuals;
26. (26) photographs;
27. (27) poetry;
28. (28) policy handbooks (intended for internal use only);
29. (29) programs (announcements of);
30. (30) recruitment materials;
31. (31) reprints (reissued without change);
32. (32) stationery;
33. (33) student publications (those produced by students);
34. (34) telephone directories (meant only for employee, faculty, or student use); and
35. (35) volunteer newsletters.

Source Note:The provisions of this §3.5 adopted to be effective March 24, 1997, 22 TexReg 2609; amended to be effective June 27, 2000, 25 TexReg 6095.