Depository Library Links
Federal Depository Information- Access to and Services for Federal Information in the Networked Environment a White Paper from the Coalition for Networked Information.
- Administrative Notes, September 1995- present, unofficial version from the University of Michigan. Official version from 1996, available from Government Printing Office
- AALL
GovDocs Tutorial "The purpose of this application is to help
library workers understand and implement basic procedures for
processing US federal publications and information resources.
These procedures are required by law and are governed by the US
Government Printing Office. The tutorial contains three modules:
- Basics of documents processing
- Collection maintenance
- Guide to the Superintendent of Documents classification system"
- Basic Depository Library Documents (HTML) from the University of Denver.
- Congressional Research Service (CRS) CU Penny Hill Press has a topically arranged bibliography of recent CRS reports.
- Documents Data Miner provides access to a searchable List of Classes, depository profiles, inactive or discontinued items, and other information. Provided by Wichita State University, the National Institute for Aviation Research, and the Federal Depository Library Program.
- Electronic Toolbox from the Government Information and Depository Management Clearinghouse. Includes information on configuring your browser to view tiff images. This is the file format used by the USPTO for patent images.
- Enhanced Shipping List Service provides shipping list files for paper, electronic, fiche, and separates. Includes shipping lists from 1999 to the present.
- Federal Bulletin Board includes Federal Agency File Libraries and and FBB File Libraries.
- Federal Computer Week
- GOVDOC-L User guide and search feature for the mailing list archives.
- Government Documents Round Table (GODORT)
- Government Documents Librarianship from University of Michigan.
- Government Printing Office
- GPO Congressional Publications Releases Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C, Inc. prepares this list to fill the information gap created after the cessation of Congress in Print, which was "unique in providing an easy one source listing of newly released congressional hearings, prints, reports, public laws, and GAO reports."
- Locate a Federal Depository Library from Government Printing Office (GPO).
- Needs and Offers List.
- Student Procedures Manual (Michigan State University) Although much of this manual is specific to MSU, it contains a guide to the SuDocs classification system, interactive quiz, and other information of general utility for staff who maintain documents collections.
- FdSYS provides access to a suite of government information products, other sites to consult:
- Toolbox for Processing and Cataloging Federal Government Documents The toolbox contains the following sections:
- GPO Item Selection and Classification Information
- Depository Processing Tools
- GPO Cataloging Records
- Collection Management Information
- Cataloging Handbooks, Manuals, and Guides
- Verifying PURLs and Internet Resources
- Library Catalogs
- E-Mail Discussion Lists
- Uncle Sam (University of Memphis) includes a nice list of Migrating Documents (Documents converting to electronic distribution). Arrangement is by title or SuDoc number.
- U.S. Depository Libraries Home Pages from University of Idaho.
- CARL Catalog for Colorado State Government Publications.
- State & Local Documents Task Force (ALA GODORT)
- StateList: Electronic Source for State Publications Lists from Documents and Law Libraries at the University of Illinois
- Acquiring International Documents
- Adobe Acrobat Access A free service which converts .pdf documents to html.
- American Library Association (ALA)
- Bibliographic Formats and Standards revised guide to machine-readable cataloging records in the OCLC® Online Union Catalog.
- Center for Research Libraries Catalog
- Colorado Library Association (CLA)
- Currency Converter
- Government Information in Canada online journal.
- ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science ---a glossary of library-related terms.
- International Documents TaskForce (ALA GODORT)
- International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
- Internet Library for Librarians
- Librarian's Yellow Pages
- National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
- Online Dictionaries and Translators links by language.
- OneLook Dictionaries Look up terms appearing in hundreds of online dictionaries.
- PowerPoint in the Classroom---a tutorial
- Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual from the Northeast Document Conservation Center
- Publishers' Catalogues Links to websites of publishers.
- Special Libraries Assocation (SLA)
- Table of Contents for Government Information Quarterly and Journal of Government Information
- WebCats index and links to library catalogs on the Web.
