government documents and information for interns

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Government Information and Documents

Intern Training, 8/14/2014

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Federal Documents

The FDLP was established by Congress to ensure public access to government information

Government Printing Office gathers documents, creates records, and sends them to the participating FDLP libraries.

Federal Depository Library Program

Jackson has been a depository since 1963, but have some earlier documents.

Check out some of our docs on Tumblr We have print, microfiche, and online

collections Some documents have been digitized for

the Home Economics & Nutrition Pamphlets

http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/HENP/id/567

This is part of the ASERL Center of Excellence program

UNC Chapel Hill is our regional repository

Our collection

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North Carolina Documents

Print and microfiche (mostly microfiche) Some documents have been sent to

regular stacks. The collection is mostly mid-1980s up.

Our Collection

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Finding depository documents

Majority of print documents are in Ferguson’s remote storage and are searchable in catalog.

A few are in cataloging (C, I, & L).

Major documents are in reference (Census, Statutes at Large).

Microfiche are in basement (for now).

The federal documents use the SuDoc Classification System.

The NC documents use a similar system. If a call number has a colon [:], then it is

a SuDoc and not LC. Example: PR 41.8:B 52/2

Want to play with SuDocs?

Classification System

Print federal document in storage Record will eventually reflect storage & include

a request button Print NC document in storage

Record will eventually reflect storage & include a request button

Microfiche Online federal document

Examples of Catalog Records

{i.e., not depository documents

Finding Government Information

Government Information Research Guide: http://uncg.libguides.com/govinfo

Google advanced searching: site:.gov

USA.gov: Portal to online government information

ProQuest Congressional: Materials (hearings, reports, transcript of the floor debates, and more) for both houses of Congress.

See Government Information Research Guide for more!

Other search tools

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