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GOVERNMENTDOCUMENTS
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Information is the Currency of Democracy
– Thomas Jefferson
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What is a Government Document?
Anything published by a government agency Can be extended to include NGOs
“Informational matter which is published as an individual document at government
expense, or as required by law”
–U.S. Code Title 44, Ch. 19, Sec. 1901. Types: laws, reports, documents, maps… Topics: Congressional, economic, health,
research, demographic, informative…
Formats: moving toward web-based
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How Much?
U.S. government is the largest publisher in the world 30.5 million printed publications distributed in
fiscal year 2002 372 million documents were downloaded from
GPO Access in FY 2002 300,000 federal government document titles
are available to the public via the Internet at GPO Access http://www.gpoaccess.gov.
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Two Main Divisions
1. Government Printing Office (GPO)
2. Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP)
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Some History
July 17, 1895 First Depository shipment 1895: There were 420 Depository
Libraries 1895: All depository libraries received
100% of publications and could only weed superseded items.
1895: Monthly Catalog appeared
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Some History
1895-1903: SuDocs classification developed
1907: Land Grant colleges added to system.
1923: Libraries could select materials, not just receive 100%.
1923: 418 depositories.
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The SuDoc Call Number System Based on the issuing agency. Titles are arranged by agency not subject matter:
• A = Agriculture• C = Commerce• D = Defense • E = Energy• ED = Education• EPA = Environmental Protection Agency• etc…
A 1.1: 975A 1.2: 43A 1.3: 6/1A 1.3: 6/2A 1.3: 6/4200A 1.4: AM 52A 1.4: AM 64A 1.4/2: AM 77A 1.4/2: 1A 1.5: B/3A 1.5/A: B/3
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1988: First CD-ROM distributed to depository libraries.
1993 GPO Electronic Information Access Enhancement Act
Amended Title 44 to require online dissemination of information.
Some History
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GPO Now Created primarily to satisfy
the printing needs of Congress,
GPO today is the focal point for printing, binding, and information dissemination for the entire Federal community.
In addition to Congress and the White House approximately 130 Federal departments and agencies rely on GPO’s services.
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GPO Located in Washington, D.C. Title 44, United States Code
defines the laws enforcing the GPO’s role.
In FY 2000, GPO distributed 12.2
million copies of approximately
29,000 tangible products in print,
microform, and CD-ROM formats
to depository libraries.
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Federal Depository Library Program
Administered by U.S. Code Title 44, Ch. 19
The FDLP is based upon three principles:1. With certain specified exceptions, all Federal
Government information products shall be made available to Federal depository libraries.
2. Federal depository libraries shall be located in each State and U.S. Congressional District in order to make Government information products widely available.
3. That Federal Government information in all media shall be available for the free use of the general public
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Depository Libraries
53 Regional Libraries 1300+ Selective libraries Depositories are: -50% Academic -20% Public -11% Law -19% Other Federal depository libraries serve an estimated 9.5 million people each year.
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Depository Libraries in Connecticut
Connecticut State Library Regional Bridgeport Public Library Hartford Public Library Wesleyan University Yale University University of Connecticut
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Locating Federal Government Information on the WWW
USA.gov
GPO Access
Google Uncle Sam
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What Is USA.gov? E-government: Front Door to Administration’s
citizen-centric eGovernment citizens can do business with government online
Interagency initiative administered by the U.S. General Services Administration
US Government’s “official Web portal” to all government information”
Search engine that reaches 51 million federal, state, and territorial Web pages
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Helpful Features of USA.gov Easy to use A-Z Agency Index Reference Center Online Services for:
Citizens Business
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A-Z Agency Index
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What is GPO Access?
www.gpoaccesss.gov A service of the U.S. Government Printing
Office Free public access to electronic information
products produced by the Federal Government A collection of searchable databases
containing full-text publications of the executive, legislative and judicial branches
Committed to permanent public access of government information in electronic format
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Facts about GPO Access
1. Contains over 147,000 electronic titles2. Points/links to 93,000 other titles3. Contains almost 2,800 databases4. Since 1994, retrievals have exceeded 1.6
billion5. Average size of document retrieved from
GPO Access is 49Kb (24.5 typewritten pages)
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Go to GPO ACCESS to locate the full-text of:
Congressional Bills Congressional
Documents and Reports
Congressional Hearings (limited)
Public Laws Congressional
Record US Code
State of the Union Speech
Federal Register Code of Federal
Regulations Public Papers of the
Presidents Weekly Compilation
of Presidential Documents
Supreme Court Decisions
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Helpful Features of GPO Access
A–Z Resource List Resources grouped by branch of government Alphabetical database list Advanced and field searching by database Ben’s Guide to US Government
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What is Google Uncle Sam?
Subset of Google, a leading search engine Search engine for government sites Only searches domains ending with .gov
or .mil Tops for speed and accuracy!
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Demographics and Statistics
Statistics: A Pollak Library Research Guide American FactFinder (Census Bureau)
http://factfinder.census.gov/ Statistical Abstract
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/ FedStats http://www.fedstats.gov/ City and County Databook
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/ccdb.html
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Consumer Price Index Uniform Crime Reports/Crime in the Unite
d States Popular NCES Reports National Center for
Educational Statistics
More Statistics
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Government and Law
White House www.whitehouse.gov Presidential Libraries Thomas http://thomas.loc.gov/ Budget of the U.S. Government Core Documents of U.S. Democ
racy
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More Government & Law
Supreme Court of the United States Congressional Directory Department of Homeland Security
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Portals
students.gov www.students.gov
science.gov www.science.gov
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Careers & Occupations
Occupational Outlook Handbook http://stats.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
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Everything Else
American Memory www.loc.gov National Atlas http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/
Forms from the Feds http://exlibris.memphis.edu/govpubs/forms.htm
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More Stuff
seniors.gov www.seniors.gov Write your Representative
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Find your Senators
http://www.senate.gov/
FedBizOpps http://www.fedbizopps.gov/
Fair Market Rents – FMRs http://www.huduser.org/datasets/fmr.html
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Still More… U.S. Life Tables
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/life_tables.htm
Where to Write for Vital Records http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w.htm healthfinder®
http://www.healthfinder.gov/ Federal Citizen Information Center
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/
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More Stuff
Citizens Against Government Waste: U.S. Population Clock
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock
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Selected Reference Sites for Government Information
U.S. Depository Ready Reference Collection from Columbia University
Yale University Library Government Documents Govdocs from Brooklyn College U.S. Government Documents Reference Shelf from Indiana
University Best Document Resources
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Selected Reference Sites for Government Information
FDTF Government Information Vanderbilt U U.S. Depository Ready Reference Collection UMichigan Documents Center
a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news.
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Maps, maps, maps!
Map Collections What do you see?
Places in the News Earth as Art Language of the Land Geographical Fun Atlas National Atlases: Presenting the Nation's Cult
ural Geography Zoom into Maps Mapping My Spot in History