U.S. Federal Documents
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Statistics Federal Depository Libraries
Program
Guide to Government Publications Series
WELCOME to the Stanford University
Libraries Federal Depository Collection available for use in the
library free of charge to all those needing federal government information.
See Access policy for the Stanford
University Libraries/Jonsson Library and Branner
Earth Sciences Library.
The Federal Depository Collection of government documents is located
in the Green Research Library and in the Branner
Earth Sciences Library. All library materials including government
documents are included in Stanford's
online catalog. This catalog includes the classfication/call
number and library location. Federal documents housed in the Law
School Library are also included in Socrates.
The Federal Depository Collection in the Green Library is arranged,
shelved or filed by classification/call numbers like other library
materials. Federal government documents are issued in many formats
including print, microforms, cdroms, maps, and Internet access.
The classification/call number and library location are essential
in locating federal government documents in the Stanford Libraries.
Depository documents in ELECTRONIC FORMAT are available to all
free of charge and include those on the Internet and those in cdrom
format. Internet documents are available for viewing at the public
use terminals in the SSRC and
in the Information Center. Many of the documents are listed in Socrates
and include the URL for ease in accessing.
The cdroms can be accessed in the SSRC at the designated depository
cdrom terminal or at one of the Information Center cdrom terminals.
All of the cdroms are listed in Socrates including the call numbers.
The cdroms are located in the
SSRC cdrom files.
.Most of the federal documents in the Green Library with locations
fed-docs and SSRC-docs are arranged, shelved or filed by a Superintendent
of Documents classification placing the documents in an issuing
agency order and not in a subject order. Documents shelved in the
Information Center and in the SSRC reading room are shelved with
other library materials in the Library of Congress classification.
For a description of the Superintendent of Documents classification
see http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/classman/index.html.
View locations in the Green Library on pages Cecil
H. Green Online Tour and Cecil
H. Green floor plan guide.
The Branner Earth Sciences federal documents collection is shelved
using the Dewey classification and specialized arrangements particularly
maps. For those not familiar with the Socrates online catalog,
begin
by reviewing screens on Search
Tips: Searching Socrates on the Web--Brief Guide, "Help"
and "Browse".
Journal and periodical articles are not indexed in Socrates. To
do this search (by article title/author or subject), choose Melvyl,
the California Digital Library Catalog. This database provides
indexing for journal and periodical articles and includes the call
numbers and locations for Stanford Library locations. Socrates DOES
NOT index journal and periodical articles, and it is essential
to know the journal/periodical title, volume/date, and page as well
as the classification/call number in order to use journal and periodical
volumes in the Stanford Libraries.
Circulating documents may be borrowed directly by those holding
a Stanford ID. Non Stanford ID researchers may borrow these materials
through their own libraries on the interlibrary
loan program.
To locate other Depository Libraries see Area
Depository Libraries; Regional
Federal Depository Libraries; Full list of Federal
Depository Libraries by state.
Free Internet access to government information is available on
15 public terminals in the Information and Social Sciences centers.
There are charges for printing in the libraries.
The following guides on using federal government documents are
available and may be useful.
The following electronic databases arranged by broad topics are
available for use with the Federal Depository Collection.
Bibliographic
Congress
Contracts
Laws, Statutes, Codes, Regulations
President
Statistics
Stanford University was designated a congressional depository library
in 1895, and today is in California Congressional District 14 and
has continued its status. The Federal Depository Program includes
about 1300 selective depository libraries and 53 regional depository
libraries. These libraries are located in the 50 states, the District
of Columbia, and U.S. Territories. The Library Program Service also
manages the distribution component of the International Exchange
Service Program for the Library of Congress making federal government
documents available in foreign country libraries. These programs
are authorized by Title
44, U.S.C.
Through the Government Printing Office and its coordination with
federal government agencies, the Program offers titles for selection
by the libraries based on the needs and interests of the library's
congressional district. The regional
libraries are required to select all documents offered on the
program and to house them permanently.
Selective depository libraries select documents needed in their
district and are required to keep materials for a minimum of five
years. In exchange for the receipt of the documents, the depository
library is required to provide free access to these documents and
treatment equal to other materials in the library. Within this Federal
Depository Library System, the regional libraries provide access
to their complete collections and support the selective depositories
in staff training. Stanford University is a selective depository
library, and the California
State Library in Sacramento is the regional depository library
for the State of California. For additional information on this
program, see Federal
Depository Library Program.
The Depository Collection forms the basis of a substantial federal
documents collection in the Stanford Libraries and has been broadened
by the addition of commercial indexes, microforms of previously
unavailable documents, out of print document reprints, archives,
and electronic formats including databases, cdroms, and data tapes.
The focus of the collection has been Congress including the Continental
Congress documents, departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Interior,
State, War, and the Office of the President. Smaller special agencies
like the temporary boards, commissions, and committees have been
collected while they existed. The Branner Earth Sciences Library
and its facilities allow acquisition of maps which many depository
libraries cannot afford to house.
This collection numbers in excess of 130,000 volume equivalents
of publications, 160,000 technical reports, thousands of reels of
microfilm archives, over 300,000 microfiche, and several hundred
cdroms and computer tapes.
Last modified:
June 17, 2008
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