This study describes a questionnaire survey distributed to federal government documents librarians in the 53 regional depositories of the Federal Depository Library System. The purpose of the study was to determine how much communication there is among documents librarians in regional depositories, how much communication regional documents librarians have with documents librarians in selective depositories, and what methods of communication are being used. Overwhelmingly respondents preferred email as a communication method, and email was also cited as the most frequently used method of communication. There appears to be a definite split in terms of expectations and attitudes among respondents in terms of professional journals and conferences, but there was no strong correlation between any of the survey variables to suggest a reason for this difference. A next possible step in determining patterns of communication is to survey a sample of federal documents librarians in selective depositories
