PA 803: Advanced Research Design
Finding Federal Documents in the Library
The NCSU Libraries has an extensive collection of Federal government
documents. Those that have been published since 1976 can be searched in
electronic databases. The Government Printing Office in 2005 finally began to
provide an electronic version of the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government
Publications.
The D. H. Hill Library Federal documents collection contains approximately
86% of the publications contained in the Monthly Catalog.
Many of the publications in the library's Federal documents collection are
older than 1976 and can not be searched electronically. For material issued
prior to 1976, use the printed Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government
Publications -- shelved on the second floor, North Tower, on the
bookstack range closest to Hillsborough Street -- to obtain call numbers for
this material.
The Federal documents collection is shelved on the second floor tower stack
areas of the library. The collection is arranged by a separate classification
system -- the Superintendent of Documents (or SuDoc) classification scheme --
which arranges material by the government agency responsible for the
publication. Such an arrangement is not good for browsing since many agencies
may have published books on a given topic.
Examples:
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FirstGov.gov : is it a good idea? : hearing before the Subcommittee
on Government Management, Information, and Technology of the Committee on
Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress,
second session, October 2, 2000. (2001, 160 p.)
- DH Hill Docs. Y 4.G 74/7:F 51/9
- FirstGov link.
-
Continuous process improvement : tools and techniques for
practitioners / U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration
(2001, 88 p.)
- DH Hill Docs. TD 2.2:C 76/13/2001
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Government at the brink / Committee on Governmental Affairs, United
States Senate (2001, 2v.)
- v. 1, Urgent federal government management problems facing the Bush
administration.
- v. 2, An agency by agency examination of federal government management
problems facing the Bush administration.
- DH Hill Docs. Y 4.G 74/9:G 74/12/V.1-2
-
Federal efforts to eradicate employment discrimination in state and local
governments : an assessment of the U.S. Department of Justice's
Employment Litigation Section / U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (2001, 90 p.)
- DH Hill Docs. CR 1.2:D 63/2
-
Supervisors in the federal government : a wake-up call: report of a
special study / United States. Office of Personnel Management. Office of Merit
Systems Oversight & Effectiveness (2001, 27 p.)
- DH Hill Docs. PM 1.2:SU 7/4
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