LIS 4362 Government Publications
Assignment Two
Serial Set Exercises
Resources to be used for these questions:
U.S. Congressional Serial Set [Readex] - Full text from 1817 - 1980 (Use American State Papers for 1789 - 1838 - note the overlap).
ProQuest Congressional contains the Serial Set from 1817 to present, and also includes the American State Papers (1789-1838).
Numerical lists and schedule of volumes of the reports and documents of the ... Congress, ... session [note that in the Peak record you can get online access to numerical lists for 1970 onward]
THOMAS [from the Library of Congress]
1. Title: Disposition of records by The Panama Canal.
Give the following information:
Congress:
Session:
Report no:
Serial Set no:
2. Find in the Serial Set a message from President Millard Fillmore about a survey at the mouth of the Rio Grande River.
Give the following information:
Congress:
Session
Document no:
Title according to Readex (U.S. Congressional Serial Set):
Title according to ProQuest Congressional:
3. Powell's Expedition of the Colorado River contains a map. Provide info for this document:
Page number the map is on:
Congress:
Session:
Doc no:
Serial Set no:
Be sure to examine some of the beautufil illustrations in this volume.
Give the title according to Readex:
Give the title according to ProQuest Congressional:
4. Consider this document:
39th Congress, 2nd Session
S.Exec.Doc. 26
Give the title of the above document according to Readex:
Give the title of the above document according to ProQuest Congressional:
Give the Serial Set no:
5. Title: Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993. S. Rpt. 103-123
Find the Serial Set number that contains this report. [hint: numerical lists make this task easy]
6. Senator Robert Dole publised a history of the U.S. Senate. Find the record for this in ProQuest Congresional.
CIS-NO (note CIS = Congressional Information Service. CIS was purchased by LexisNexis, which was later purchased by ProQuest):
Serial Set no:
7. Tools you may try for these questions: FDsys.gov; thomas.gov; congress.gov; PQ Legislative Insight
a) What is the short title of Public Law 104-104? [hint: easy way to get a short title is to look at the last page of a slip law or bound version in US Statutes at Large].
b) How many pieces of legislation has Senator Barbara Mikulski sponsored in her career? How many of those have gone on to become public law? [hint: congress.gov is the easiest tool to use]
c) There was a House Report associated with H.R. 5122 from the 109th Congress. What is the number of that House Report? Do we have a DU library catalog record for this report? Give the SuDocs number.
d) Who sponsored the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site Study Act of 1998?