How to Access Government Documents

How to Identify and Locate Government Documents

Many of the library's government documents can be located, like books, by searching the library's online catalog.

For example, suppose you did a SUBJECT search in the catalog on the phrase, Global Warming.... The initial results of your search do not show any distinction between books and government documents

If you select the button EXTENDED DISPLAY, you will see additional information about the titles retrieved including location designations (Bierce, Law, Science, Wayne) and call numbers for the titles: call numbers with slashes (/) or colons (:) indicate U.S. government documents. These are called Superintendent of Documents, or SUDOC numbers.

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