Resources for Depository Libraries: Government Information Services

Mississippi Regional Information

Regional Services
Directory of Federal Depository Libraries in Mississippi
Mississippi State Documents Depositories
Needs & Offers Guidelines [Disposal policy]
Mississippi Regional Needs List
List of Mississippi Depository Offers
State Plan (draft)

Management Tools

FDLP Desktop
Best Practices
FDLP Handbook
FDLD: Federal Depository Library Directory
Admin Notes
Needs/Offers List (national)
Purl Referrals (GPO)
Government Documents Librarianship (Univ. Michigan)
21 Things to Do When Assuming Responsibility for a Federal Depository Library (UNT)
Top 10 List for New Documents Librarians (FDLP Desktop)

Reference/Instruction

GIO – Government Information Online: Ask a Librarian
GODORT Handout Exchange
Government Document Display Clearinghouse (Minn. State Univ. at Mankato)
Gi21: Government Information in the 21st Century
Tutorials: “The Agency Approach” to Locating Government Information on the Internet" Univ. of Western Ill.)
American Factfinder Tutorial (Vanderbilt University)
American Factfinder & Census 2000 (Univ of Michigan)
Census Report Tutorial (Vanderbilt University)
Historical Census Browser Tutorial (Vanderbilt University)
SUDOCS Basics: Tutorial and Quiz (Michigan State Univ.)
Congressional Research Tutorials (Univ. of California/Berkeley)

Cataloging Tools

Documents Data Miner
ANTS & WebTechNotes
Shipping Lists (in Excel)
Superseded List (FDLP Desktop)
1909 Checklist (Evergreen State College)
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
Toolbox for Cataloging & Processing Federal Government Documents (ALA-GODORT)

Associations:

ALA-GODORT
MLA-GODORT
ASERL's Collaborative Federal Depository Program
Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects

Keeping Informed

Blogs: Free GovInfo

Listservs:
GovDoc-L
DocTech-L
GPO-FDLP-L
ASERL Selectives - to subscribe, e-mail:
join-aserl_selectives@solinet.net with subject: subscribe aserl_selectives
MsGovDocs - to subscribe, e-mail:
ldelgado@library.msstate.edu