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Government Information Services

Overview of Our Services

Government information services are provided by the Documents Section, Research and Instructional Services Department, Walter Davis Library. Materials from all levels of government are included: federal, state, local, and international governmental organizations.

The Data Services section of Davis Research and Instructional Services includes Government Data.

The documents collection includes over three million items in print, microforms, and electronic formats.

Depository Collections:

  • U.S. federal information: collection goes back to 1789; a depository since 1884; a federal Regional Depository Library since 1962.
  • United Nations publications: since 1946.
  • New York state: since 1970.

Policies

The government documents collection is open to the public. The collection is available during the service hours of the Research and Instructional Services department.

The documents collection is housed in the basement of Davis Library. To gain access to the basement, please ask at the Reference Desk on the first floor. Librarians are available to retrieve documents for you, or you may obtain a pass to visit the basement yourself and browse the collection.

Many of the documents in the collection are available for check out following the library's normal loan policies. Items marked with an orange sticker on the spine are library-use only.

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This page was last updated Thursday, July 29, 2010.