Federal Government Documents Tutorial
The NCSU Libraries On-line Catalog
To find which government documents are held in the NCSU Libraries,
begin your search in The Libraries
on-line catalog.
In this catalog you will find references to all federal documents
we have received since 1986 -- specifically, you will find there titles we
hold that have been recorded in Monthly Catalog issues since July
1986. That is the date when catalog records for federal documents first
became available in machine-readable form.
The Libraries catalog also contains records for some
titles published earlier than 1986. We face a big project to add
thousands of federal document titles to the catalog for those holdings we
received prior to 1986. (NCSU has been a depository library since
1932.)
To learn which older titles we hold, you should consult the federal
documents shelflist in the second floor bookstacks. To use the
shelflist effectively, first obtain the SuDoc call numbers for documents you
seek from the printed Monthly Catalog, described in the next
section.
If you wish to perform a comprehensive search of the Monthly
Catalog's content, July 1986 to present, the subset of WorldCat, the OCLC U.S. Government Documents
database via NCLive, is the resource to use.
Also be aware that neither The Libraries on-line catalog nor the
Monthly Catalog attempts to index technical report literature.
Special indexes in the physical sciences and education are devoted to this
material. You'll find more about these indexes in section 12.
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