Federal Government Documents Tutorial
Depository Libraries
Another function of GPO is to supervise a network of libraries
throughout the country. There are nearly 1300 of these depository
libraries which contract to receive from GPO free copies of government
publications that local librarians may select. In exchange for the free
publications, depository libraries agree to make those materials freely
available to the general public. There is typically at least one
depository library in each Congressional district. The D.H. Hill Library
has been a depository since 1932.
The federal depository collection in the D.H. Hill Library has
arrived, over the years, in multiple formats: paper, microfiche, maps,
CD and floppy disk. Since the late 1990s, a majority of federal
documents have been made available only via the Internet. Links to many
of these electronic resources are included in The Libraries catalog.
The paper federal document collection is shelved on the second
floor, with call numbers A - I 18: in the south bookstack tower, and the
remainder of the collection, I 19: - Z, in the older, north bookstack
tower. The Libraries Unity Lab is situated between the two halves of the
hardcopy documents collection.
Microfiche federal documents are housed in the Microforms Room at
the southeast corner of the second floor of the East Wing of the library
complex. Sheet maps - during the 2005-06 renovation project - are found
in the East Wing, ground floor. CD-Rom products received from GPO are
housed close to the Reference Desk; ask there to access them. The
Reference Desk is the place to come with all questions concerning use of the
documents collection.
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