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Judge Kathryn J. DuFour Law Library was designated a U.S. Federal Depository Library in 1979. The Law Library is committed to providing free public access to Government information for our primary patrons and for all public patrons. As a selective depository, the Library receives ~15% of all government documents available through this program. In accordance with the mission of the law library, most depository selections cover a broad range of law related materials in many formats, concentrating on microform materials. Also, the Federal Depository Library Program is increasing the number of documents available in electronic format, and the Internet will continue to be a major source of government information.
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Access & Policy Information
The government documents are integrated into the library's collection. Government documents
that are in microform and paper documents are located in the Government
Documents/Microform area, Room 330, which also houses all library microforms
and microform reader/printers. Not all government documents appear in COLUMBO
yet and others are classified by SuDoc Classification, so feel free to ask the Reference staff or the Government Documents/Acquisitions
Librarian (Room 330A) for assistance.
Within the Government
Documents/Microform area, there is a computer designated for government
documents research. This computer has a time limit of 20 minute use if others
are waiting.
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Contact Information
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Government Documents Librarian, Mr. Lynn
Monkres, 202-319-5136, monkres@law.edu
is available to assist with reference questions M-F 9am-5pm. For assistance at other times, please contact the Reference
staff, 202-319-6284.
A number of government documents received through
the Federal Depository Library Program are kept at Mullen Library, Catholic University
of America's main library. The Librarian to contact at Mullen regarding the
government documents is Anne Lesher, 202-319-5068, lesher@cua.edu.
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The Regional Depository library for this area is the
University of Maryland's McKeldin Library in College Park,
As a regional depository, the McKeldin Library receives all the government documents available in the Depository Library
Program. The general phone number of McKeldin Library is (301) 405-9165. If you need help during evenings or weekends, please contact McKeldin Library's Information & Research Services Desk at (301) 405-9075.
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Government Information Online
Government Information Online (GIO): a free online information service supported by nearly twenty public, state and academic libraries throughout the United States. All participants are designated Federal depository libraries in the U.S. Government Printing Office's Federal Depository Library Program. Many are also official depository libraries for their other types of governments and public agencies.
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SuDoc Classification:
The Superintendent of Documents (SuDoc) number is the call number scheme used
in depository libraries for their Federal documents collections. Because this
classification scheme arranges materials by the authoring agency and type of
publication, a SuDoc number fielded search allows one to locate similar
resources by an agency. At least up to the stem of the SuDoc number must be
entered for the search to be executed properly. The stem includes the initial
letters and numbers up to and including the colon (:). Be sure to insert a space
between letters and numbers unless there is intervening punctuation. No spaces
precede or follow symbols. Do not use quotation marks (" ") in a SuDoc
field search. For example:
EP 1.2:B 74/2 retrieves the specific document: Read this if you plan to
breathe this summer : advisory for those with asthma breathing problems and
for children, older adults, and people who work outdoors.
EP 1.2: retrieves other general publications from the Environmental
Protection Agency.
For a more information about the SuDoc classification system see An
Explanation of the Superintendent of Documents Classification System and the
GPO
Classification Manual.
March 2008
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