Basic Contact
Information
The University of Michigan Library is a depository for
publications of the United States Government, State of Michigan, United Nations,
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Asian Development
Bank, South Pacific Commission and the Government of
Canada. Depository status ensures receipt of the majority of
important documents, though not all. The Law Library is the depository
for the European Union. Depository
Item Selections.
In addition, the Library subscribes to
publications of several international agencies and selectively
purchases publications of other states and nations.
| Government publications are integrated into the
collections of the various campus libraries. |
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Government
Resources on the Web
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Bibliographies, Indexes and Directories for
All Levels of Government
Federal and Michigan Laws and Regulations
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United Nations Publications
- Official Records
Mimeographed Publications in paper and microform
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United States Congressional Publications
- Current committee hearings in paper
- Current committee prints, reports and documents in paper
- Hearings, prints, reports, and documents on microfiche since 1789
- The Congressional Record
- Congressional bills since 1979
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Electronic Resources
- World Development Indicators CD-ROM
- Census and National Trade Data Bank CD-ROMS
- Congressional, Statistical and Academic Universe
- Access UN, 1946+
- Digital National Security Archive and Declassified Documents
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Statistics
- U.S. Decennial and Economic Censuses (paper and CD-ROM)
- Current federal statistics
- Population census from around the world, 1778 to the present
- Statistical abstracts from around the world
- Federal, state, business, and international statistics microfiche
| Documents Center Holdings
as of May 1997
- Printed Volumes: 28,486
- Microfiche Sheets: 1,282,320
- Microfilm Reels: 2,628
- Microprint Sheets: 58,320
- CD-ROMS: 540
- Web Pages Maintained by Documents Center: 180
- Additional Text Files on the Web: 850
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Documents Center
Locations
The Documents Center
Reading Room (map) includes:
- Key reference materials (directories, bibliographies, Congressional
research sources) against the west wall opposite the entrance
- Statistical reference sources (current Population and Economic
Censuses, foreign and international compendiums) against the north
wall to the right of the entrance
- LEXIS, Census, United Nations, Congressional Masterfile, Statistical
Masterfile, and three MIRLYN/Web workstations
- Two microfiche/film reader-printers and a microprint reader
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The Documents Center Stack
Area (map)
behind the reading room houses:
- The Congressional, statistical, and United Nations microform
collections
- Congressional hearings for the past six years in paper copy
- United Nations Official Records, mimeographed publications and
reference material
- The remaining stack area
- Photocopier
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The publications of most local, state,
foreign and international
governments are represented in MIRLYN.
MIRLYN also provides web access to all campus, State of Michigan, and Big
10
libraries. Subject headings, authors, and URLs are hot-linked.
While many federal documents are also
listed, others are maintained in
separate uncataloged collections and arranged by their own internal
numbering systems. Records for segments of the Congressional and
United Nations collection are only found in the Documents Center
catalog.
| The Detroit Area Library
Network catalog, DCAT
in the REMOTE section of MIRLYN, is a good
source for identifying federal government documents that the University of Michigan Library may have
in uncataloged form.
Public Affairs Information
Service, PAIS in the INDEXES section of
MIRLYN, indexes books, articles, and government
documents on politics and economics.
| Consult the Documents staff
for assistance in locating any
government publication not readily identified in MCAT. |
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The Documents Center provides
reference assistance
during the hours listed
above with more extensive search assistance available by
appointment.
The staff can assist faculty in
designing research assignments and offer
classroom instruction given a minimum two week notice.
Appointments for bibliographic
data base searches
covering federal documents and Michigan legislation can be arranged at
the Documents Center Desk.
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Several libraries on the
University of Michigan campus house
significant collections of government documents, including: |
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Us
Government Resources In the Documents Center
