TUTORIALS AND GUIDES TO FINDING GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

Campbell Library

Guide to finding U.S. Government Information in Rowan University Library.

Using American Factfinder - University of Wisconsin at Madison

Congressional Research - Doe Library, University of California at Berkeley - short tutorials on finding bills, hearings, debates, and using the Congressisonal Record in print - developed by Karen Munroe, E-Learning Librarian and Jesse Silva, Librarian for Federal Documents, Legal Studies, Political Science and Public Policy.

Federal Register - This tutorial, put online by The National Archives, is based on the printed guide, "The Federal Register:  What It Is and  How to Use It, SuDoc AE 2.108:F 31.  A copy of the printed guide is held on the shelves behind the service desk in the Government Documents Room 245 of the library. 

GODORT (ALA's Government Documents Roundtable)

      Use the 'Agency Approach" to find government information on the internet.

This is a tutorial created by Chuck Malone and sponsored by the Continuing Education

Fund Working Group of the Education Committee of the American Library Association's

Government Documents Roundtable.

How to effectively locate Federal Government Information on the World Wide Web - University of California

Information retrieval strategies for locating U.S. government information.

GPO - Federal Resources Organized by Topic

Subject bibliographies from the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)

Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. - Legislative Source Books - a legal research website which includes research overviews of the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, U.S. Statutes, U.S. Code, and federal legislative history compilation.

 

 

 

 

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