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) 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
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)
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Superseded List (FDLP Desktop)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