A majority of the Press Releases subseries is arranged in chronological order. Press releases arranged by subject or legislative area are found at the end of the subseries, arranged in alphabetical order. Some press releases have multiple copies and/or additional material that was originally fastened to the document, which may include press clippings, speech files, or other media that relates to the content of the press release.

Indexes or partial indexes created by Senator Akaka’s office have been separated into individual folders when available, and can be found before the folder(s) for the indexed year.