Tools for Government Documents Librarianship

Browse the Documents Stacks [at Penrose Library]

http://library.du.edu/site/about/governmentDocuments/browse/browse.php

Depository Management Tools

FDLP Desktop: http://fdlp.gov/

The official Web site for depository tools, including:

• Legal Requirements & Program Regulations of the Federal Depository Library Program (June 2011)
• Administrative Notes: http://www.fdlp.gov/administration/adnotes
  The official announcement mechanism from the FDLP to depository libraries.
• WEBTech Notes: http://www.fdlp.gov/collections/collection-maintenance/webtech-notes - The current way to notify docs librarians and catalogers of changes and corrections. Notifies libraries of discontinued items, new items, class changes, etc.
• Administrative Notes Technical Supplement (ANTS): http://www.fdlp.gov/home/repository/cat_view/178-collection-management/195-collection-maintenance/257-administrative-notes-technical-supplement-ants
  This is notification system before WEBTech Notes. 
• List of Classes: http://www.fdlp.gov/home/repository/doc_view/666-list-of-classes?tmpl=component&format=raw
  The official list of active Sudocs classes
• Federal Depository Library Manual: http://www.fdlp.gov/home/repository/cat_view/79-depository-administration/240-historical-publications/241-federal-depository-library-manual-a-supplements
  The regulations depository libraries are required to follow.
• Collection Development: http://www.fdlp.gov/collections
• New Electronic Titles (NET): http://catalog.gpo.gov/F/?func=file&file_name=find-net&local_base=NEWTITLE
  Searches new electronic titles by doing a date search in the CGP
• Biennial Survey of Depository Libraries: http://www.fdlp.gov/home/about/92-biennialsurvey | Past Survey Results
• National Needs and Offers List: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/tools/needs_of/

Basic Depository Library Documents: Live version no longer exists. See what it used to look like from th Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.du.edu/bdld/
Unofficial site for shipping lists and more. Produced by Tom Tyler, University of Denver.

Documents Data Miner 2 (DDM2): http://govdoc.wichita.edu/ddm2/
Searchable database for all GPO records from July 1976 onward. Unique search features include item number searching. Produced by Nan Myers, Wichita State.

Chris Brown’s Item Selection Tools for CO http://mysite.du.edu/~cbrown/gopig/ - Old site: http://www.virtualref.com/colorado/ [Show what items selection was like around 2004. Read about the project here: http://sites.google.com/site/librariancorner/item-selection-tool

Colorado and Wyoming Regional Federal Depository Library Resources: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/de/
Complete listing for all depositories in Colorado and Wyoming. Produced by Tim Byrne and the Norlin GovPubs staff.

GOVDOC-L: http://govdoc-l.org/ GOVDOC-L is a LISTSERV ©-based discussion forum about government information and the Federal Depository Library program. Many subscribers are librarians in and out of government, although private and public information producers are represented as well.

DocTech-l: http://lists.usu.edu/mailman/listinfo/doctech-l A mail list for those processing government documents.

Government Documents Roundtable (ALA GODORT): http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/godort/
This division of ALA has resources on processessing, cataloging, and current documents-related issues.

Chris Brown’s Andriot Project: http://library.du.edu/about/collections/GovernmentDocuments/browse/
Sudocs listing of materials cataloged in Peak. Broken down by class as in Guide to U.S. Government Publications.

White paper on congressional hearings: http://academic.lexisnexis.com/pdf/HearingsWhitePaper.pdf

Serial Set Resources

U.S. Congressional Serial Set: What It Is and Its History: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/history/sset/

LOC Century of Lawmaking: U.S. Serial Set: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwss.html

An Overview of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set: http://www.llsdc.org/sourcebook/docs/serial-set.pdf

Schedule of Volumes to the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1970 to Current: http://www.llsdc.org/sch-v/

Library Resources for Administrative History: Congressional Serial Set: http://www.archives.gov/research_room/alic/government_publications/administrative_history_congressional_serial_set.html

CIS U.S. Congressional Serial Set: http://web.archive.org/web/20040604094640/http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/3cis/cisl/USSerialSetIndex.asp

Serial Set: Breakfast of Champions [fun]: http://www.readex.com/readex/newsletter.cfm?newsletter=86

U.S. Congressional Serial Set Inventories: http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/ssi/

Resources from Depository Libraries

University of Michigan Documnets Center: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/

Federal Agencies Directory (from LSU): http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/