Government Resources
The Benedictine College Library is one of seventeen Congressionally designated selective Federal Depository Libraries in the State of Kansas. The Kansas regional depository is at the University of Kansas Anschutz Library.
Free public access to the Government Documents Collection is available during regular library hours. Many documents are catalogued and incorporated throughout the Library of Congress collection, plus a third floor collection is arranged by the Superintendent of Documents Classification (SuDoc) system, organized according to the federal agency issuing the document. While some documents are available for in-house reference use only, most U.S. government books, periodicals, and other publications may be checked out with a Benedictine library card or borrowed through interlibrary loan. In addition, many federal documents available online can be retrieved by searching the library's online catalog. The documents collection includes current and historical resources for a broad range of subject areas, including the arts, business, education, health, military science, science, and technology.
KEY RESOURCES FOR IDENTIFYING & ACCESSING DOCUMENTS
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications - Online catalog for federal publications, both historic and current, with direct links to those available online. Updated daily!
- govinfo - A service of the Government Publishing Office providing free public access to official publications from all three branches of the U.S. federal government
- Cornerstone Documents and Other Resources - Online access to our Nation's cornerstone documents and resources from the three branches of U.S. federal government
- Federal Depository Library Program Basic Collection - Core U.S. government resources
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set Collection - 15th Congress (1817-1819) to 82nd Congress (1951-1952)
- United States Government Manual - Leadership, agencies, and programs of the three branches of federal government
- HathiTrust Federal Government Documents Registry - Access to historical U.S. government information which might not be digitally available through GPO or agency websites
SEARCH ENGINES & REPOSITORIES
- MetaLib - Searches multiple government databases simultaneously
- Science.gov - Gateway to U.S. Federal Science
- Smithsonian DSpace Repository - Digital resource collections from the Smithsonian Institution
- USA.gov - Official portal for U.S. government information, including an A to Z index of federal agencies
LAW & REGULATIONS
- Congress.gov
- Constitution Annotated
- United States Code
- Public Laws
- United States Reports
- Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR)
