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Last updated on August 27,
2007
- Documents Center Bookmark Template
- Side 1
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/bookmark.doc>
- Side 2
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/bookmar2.doc>
- Documents
Center General Publicity Handout
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/doccen.doc>
- Two-page publicity handout of the Documents Center, including hours,
collections, and locating documents in the library system
- Updated
July 2006
- Documents
Center Floor Plan
<http://beta.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/govdocs/DocFloor.pdf>
- Floor plan created by Jennifer Nason Davis in January 2003
and revised July 2006
- PDF
format.
- Also available in XLS format
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~graceyor/doctemp/DocFloor.xls]
- Documents
Reference
<http://www-personal.umich.edu/~graceyor/doctemp/reflib07.ppt>
- Powerpoint presentation on relevance of documents to everyday life,
the types of publications governments issue, and strategies for
answering documents questions
- Federal
Documents Reference
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/feder03.xls>
- Reference tool listing the main sources and strategies for answering
federal documents questions at the University of Michigan Library
- Includes print and web tools
- Coordinated with Social Science
Reference Questions
[http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/ssrefqu.doc]
- Documents
Center Student Reference Training Plan
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/docstud.doc>
- Fourteen-week training plan for Documents Center reference assistants
- Includes tour, philosophy, discussions and exercises on statistics,
census, legislation, laws, regulations, UN, web, locating government
documents
- List of training materials
- Suggestions for exercises
- Also in PDF
- Documents Reference/Training Manual
Table of Contents
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/tabcon.doc>
- Documents Reference/Training Manual Index
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/docmanin.rtf>
- MLA
GODORT Reads (Docs) Campaign
<http://govpubs.lib.umn.edu/forum/read2003.phtml>
- Librarians favorite government documents with pictures of the
librarians
- Very amusing
- Documents Center CD
ROMS <http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/xls/doccd2.xls>
- Lists Documents Center CDs by call number
- Indicates whether mounted on Docs LAN or CITRIX
- Documents List of
Applications<http://ds9.lib.umich.edu/ts/>
- List of 100+ CD-ROMS and DVDs mounted on the Documents Center Local
Area Network
- The applications are available at Documents public
workstations
- Special software applications needed on desktop computers
for remote access within the Graduate Library building
- No access
outside Hatcher
- Documents
Center LAN Software
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/depos/staffonly/doclanap.txt>
- Step-by-step instructions for downloading the Remote Access Client
to Graduate Library computers for accessing CD-ROMS and DVDs on the
Documents Center Local Area Network
- Locating CD-ROMS
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/CD-ROM2.pdf>
- Location of uncataloged CD-ROMS and CD-ROMS on Documents Workstations,
CITRIX, and stand alone machines
- Printing and downloading protocols
- Location of guides
- Also in MS-Word
- American
Factfinder Tutorial
[http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/census2/davidsen.ppt]
- 190-slide presentation on census concepts, geography, American
Factfinder, the Census CDs, and the Geolytics mapping CDs
- HTML interface with links to powerpoint
- American
Factfinder Exercises <http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/census2/cenexer.ppt>
- Powerpoint version of illustrated American Factfinder exercises
- Includes reference maps, SF 1 and 3 data sets using list and geo within geo selections,
keyword and subject searching, and thematic maps
- Census Schedules for Genealogical
Research <http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/censch.html>
- University of Michigan holdings of original census questionnaires on
microfilm and on the web
- Soundex indexes, Enumeration District indexes, and Inter-Library
Loan
- Census
Toolkit [http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/census2/centool.pdf]
- Links to web versions of all 2000 Census files, technical documentation and maps
- Information on digitized versions of previous censuses
- Congressional
Hearings Finding Guide
[http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/conghear.doc]
- Guide
to physically location hearings in fiche or paper using MIRLYN or
Congressional Universe
- Congressional Serial Set
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/serset.pdf>
- Indexes to reports and documents by report number, subject, and bill
number
- Conversion tables from individual report numbers to serial numbers
- Location of printed and microfiche versions, 1789 to present
- Written by Lauren Collins with Grace York
- Also available in MS
Word
- Legislative
Chart [http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/legchart.html]
- Graphic showing the legislative process from a legal viewpoint
- Has links to web resources
- Legislative
Histories Tutorial
[http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/softwarebi/index.html]
- Slide-based tutorial to performing a federal legislative history
- Created by Mike Seadle
- Policy Process
[http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/polproc.html]
- Shows the
legislative process from a political viewpoint
- Has links to web sources
- Retrospective
Hearings Chart [http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/rethear.pdf]
- Guide to locating hearings in the CIS Retrospective Microfiche
Collection
- United
States Depository Libraries - 2000
- Slides on the life of a depository library in a paper and internet
environment
- Covers collection development, bibliographic access, physical access,
reference, outreach, and professional support
- Bibliography
- 2000
lists web sites in slides
- To accompany presentation
- United
States Government on the Internet - 2000
- Slide show with a sampling of federal government web sites on the
internet
- Includes basic legal information, business, consumer protection,
environment, grants, health, statistics, and search engines
- Accompanied by a Printed
Bibliography - 2000
- National
Governments on the Web - 2000
- Annotated guide to the best sites for locating national government
agencies
- Includes search engines, translations, and a sampling of
subject-based resources
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/FBIS.html>
- Illustrations for using the web index, 1975-96
- Location of microfiche reports
- Illustrations of using DIALOG version of World News Connection, 2003+
- By John Brandt and updated by Grace York
- World News Connection
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/wnc.html>
- Search protocols for the free text, region, and structured
searching
- Interface has changed to DIALOG. See
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/FBIS.html
above for more current version of World News Connection interface.
- Answers to
Legal Exercises
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/legans.pdf>
- Answers to practice questions on federal case law, Michigan statutes,
regulations, and case law
- Answers to Federal Questions
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/answer2.pdf>
- Answers to questions about the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance,
Federal Regulations, Federal Bills and Laws, and federal and state
directories
- By Lauren Collins
- Also in MS Word format
- Federal Bills, Laws and Codes
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/statute.pdf>
- Location of bills, laws, and codified laws in paper, microfiche, and
on the web
- Historic and current
- By Lauren Collins
- Also in MS Word Format
- Federal Case
Law<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/fedcase.pdf>
- Finding court decisions at all levels
- Federal Legal Citations
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/fdlegcit.pdf>
- Official citation forms for bills, laws, statutes, U.S. Code and CFR
- By Lauren Collins
- Also in MS Word format
- Federal Regulations
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/fedreg.pdf>
- Contents and location of the Federal Register and Code of Federal
Regulations
- By Lauren Collins
- Also in MS Word format
- Michigan
Administrative Regulations
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/miregs.pdf>
- Michigan Administrative Code, Executive Orders, and agency regulations
- Includes exercises
- Michigan Case
Law
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/micase.pdf>
- Supreme and appeals court decisions, 6th Federal District opinions
- Includes exercises
- Michigan
Statutes
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/milaws.pdf>
- Michigan Compiled Laws, Local and Public Acts, and bill tracking
- Includes exercises
- Documents
Center Shelflist
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/depos/Docshelflist.xls>
- Shelflist of cataloged material located in the Documents Center.
- Learning
SUDOCS Call Numbers (Becky Fox, MSU)
<http://www.lib.msu.edu/publ_ser/docs/student/Manual/quizes/sudocsbasics.html>
- Interactive tutorial to learning the SUDOCS classification system
- United
Nations
Series Numbering
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/training/untrain.pdf>
- UN series symbols, UN recording, sales publications, and contents of
Official Records
- Skills
Needed by Information Center Staff
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/requiric.doc>
- Skills needed by Information Center personnel when the Documents
Center is unstaffed
- Skills
Needed
by Public Service Staff
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/requir06.doc>
- Outlines skills needed by Documents Desk staff, including reference
tools, research, equipment repair, and computer services
- Dated May 7, 2007
- Converting
PDF to Excel
- Illustrated using Census data
- Economic Censuses
and Related Publications (Becky Fox, MSU) <http://www.lib.msu.edu/foxre/econ.census.html>
- Excellent overview of the various types of business surveys with hot links
- Written before the 1997 census was issued
- Historic
Economic Census Locations at the University of Michigan
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/econcen.xls>
- Call numbers for paper and CD-ROM copies of all of the economic
censuses, 1810 to present
- URLs for the 1997 economic censuses
- Statistical
Resources
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/sttrain.doc>
- Strategy for the reference interview
- Identifies three steps: statistical compendiums, Statistical Resources
on the Web, and Statistical Universe
- Illustrations of the publications and exercises
- Addendum of Statistical
Resources
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/statref.xls>
- International
Treaties
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/treaties.doc>
- Indexes and full text of U.S. and international treaties
- Includes printed, microfiche sources and internet sources
- Covers UN Treaty Series, League of Nations Treaty Series, historic
U.S. treaties, and treaties under consideration by Senate Foreign
Relations Committee
- Also in PDF
format
- Access
UN
<http://www.indiana.edu/~libugls/Publications/accessun.html>
- Access UN is a comprehensive index to United Nations publications
since 1946
- Indiana University's guide describes basic access points
- URL is the same for UMich; full text of publications are available in
the Documents Center
- Searching for
United Nations Documents using the Official Documents System
(ODS)
(Autumn Kladder, University of Michigan, 2005)
- United
Nations Publications
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/training/untrain2.doc>
- Types of UN Documents, their indexes, and print, microform, and web
locations
- Samples of Access UN, UNBISNet, and UN Official Documents Service
- Map of Documents Center with various locations
- United
Nations
Series Numbering
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/training/untrain.pdf>
- UN series symbols, UN recording, sales publications, and contents of
Official Records
- United
Nations Questions
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/unques.doc>
- Web
Questions
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/training/web.doc>
- Questions based on using the Documents Center's web site
Documents Center
University of Michigan Library
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/train.html
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