Information For Documents Librarians

Associations | General Resources | Federal Resources | State Resources | International Resources

Associations

• American Library Association (ALA)
  
  • ALA Washington Office
  • GODORT. Government Documents Roundtable.
    • CD-ROM Doc: GODORT CD-ROM Documentation Project Home Page
      
    • State and Local Documents Task Force
      
    • International Documents Task Force
    • GODORT Handout Exchange, University of Michigan.
      
  • Maps and Geography Round Table (MAGERT)
• Association of Public Data Users (APDU).
  
• Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS).
• Depository Library Council to the Public Printer
  
• IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations.
• North Carolina Library Association, Government Resources Section.

General Resources for All Documents Librarians

• Electronic Toolbox, GODORT Education Committee. Links to discussion lists and list archives, etc.
• GOVDOC-L, A listserv for people interested in government information at all levels.
  
• Government Documents Librarianship, University of Michigan.
  
• Government Publications, Bibliographies and Guides from the Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room, Library of Congress.
  
• Library School Classes on Government Information - GODORT Education Committee.
• Professional Resources, from ALA Government Documents Taskforce.
  
• Table of Contents , for Government Information Quarterly and the Journal of Government Information, from Auburn University.
  

Federal Resources

• 10 Most Wanted Government Documents - from the Center for Democracy and Technology.
• U. S. Depository Libraries WWW Home Pages (GPO and PTO), University of Idaho.
• Documents Data Miner 2, a collection management tool for federal depository libraries.
  
• Federal Depository Library Information, Includes the List of Classes and other information for depository libraries.
  
• Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information, GODORT Federal Documents Task Force.
• Government Printing Office.
  • New Electronic Titles:.
    
  • GPO Administrative Notes (University of Michigan, Sept. 1995 to present. ASCII version)
    
  • GPO Administrative Notes (Government Printing Office, August 1996-present. HTML version)
    
  • GPO Item Lister Lists depository library's current item number selections.
  • U.S. Government Online Bookstore
• Migrating Government Publications, University of Memphis. This lists the URLs for electronic versions of federal government publications.
  
• Regionals' Supersede Lists, University of Iowa
  
• US Government Documents Ready Reference Collection from the Documents Service Center, Columbia University Library.
  
• US Government Periodicals on the Web, Auburn University.
• WWW Sites of Federal Libraries - Federal Library and Information Center Committee.

State Resources

• State Library Websites, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
• StateList: The Electronic Source for State Publication Lists, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

International Resources

• INTL-DOC Listserv, International Documents Task Force, GODORT
• Toolbox for Processing and Cataloging International Government Documents, International Documents Task Force, GODORT.
• United Nations Depository Libraries, from the Dag Hammarskjold Library.

Documents Home Page

For additional assistance in this area, contact:
Mike Van Fossen, International and State Documents Librarian
Email: mvanfos@email.unc.edu

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