Porter, 'CIS U.S. Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1909', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v20n05 (January 1993)
 
_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 20 no. 5
January 1993
Porter, Jean
"CIS U.S. Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1909"


The NCSU Libraries' Documents Department now has available 
on microfiche the documents included in part 3 of the _CIS U.S. 
Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1909_.  This segment of 
the six-part collection includes the publications of the 
Departments of Interior, Justice, and Labor, plus those of the 
Interstate Commerce Commission and the Library of Congress.  
The full collection was purchased jointly with the libraries at 
UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke.  Parts 1 and 2--covering the 
Treasury Department, the Commerce and Labor Department, and 
the War Department--are housed at Duke.  Parts 3 and 4 will 
reside at NCSU.  Part 4, which will be released later this year, 
covers a variety of agencies, most notably the Agriculture 
Department, Civil Service and Fish commissions, and the 
Freedman's Savings and Trust Company.  Parts 5 and 6, which 
include publications of the Navy Department, the State 
Department, the president of the U.S., and the Smithsonian 
Institution, will be issued in 1994-95 and be housed at UNC-
Chapel Hill.  The collection is a rich one.  For instance, the 
Interior Department, established in 1849, included the General 
Land Office, the Patent Office, the Census Office, the 
Education Bureau, the Pension Bureau, and the Indian Affairs 
Office.  Documents in this section contain information about 
the government's relationship with Native Americans, mineral 
rights, agriculture, commerce, and navigation through census 
materials, documents on homesteading, patent issuance, law 
enforcement at the federal level, social economics, and much 
more.

The entire collection is being thoroughly indexed by the 
publisher.  The library now has the indexes to parts 1 through 
3.  Call the Documents Department at 5-3280 for further 
information.