U.S. Legal Resources Guide
Secondary Sources
Finding Federal Documents Using the Online Catalog
Federal government documents, published since 1976, can be searched by author,
title, subject, and keyword in the library's online catalog.
The library's Federal documents collection is an extensive one. Many of the
publications it contains are not represented in the library's online catalog.
For material issued prior to 1976, use the printed Monthly Catalog of U.S.
Government Publications shelved in the U.S. Documents Reference area, 2d
floor, north tower.
The Federal documents collection is shelved in the 2d 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.
A Documents Reference collection is located at the north end of the Federal
documents collection, on the last range of shelving opposite windows facing on
Hillsborough Street.
An extensive Federal Government Documents
Tutorial is available.
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