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U.S. Government Documents

Vassar has been a Federal Depository Library for selected U.S. Government documents since 1943, currently receiving about 25% of the titles available through the Federal Depository Program.   Documents added to the "Documents Collection" are arranged by Superintendent of Documents (Su Doc) call numbers.  Some are in the Main Library collection (Library of Congress call numbers)   Many are available electronically.  Our U.S. documents are available to the public.

• Finding U.S. Government Documents
• Guide to Basic Sources of United States Law
• Federal Document Depository Libraries in the SENYLRC Region

New York State Government Documents

Vassar has been a New York State Reference Center (New York Depository Program) since 1988.   State documents can be accessed through the online catalog.   Or go to the New York State Library website to access electronic documents.  Our  New York State documents are available to the public.

• Checklist of Official Publications of the State of New York
• New York State Government
• New York State Government (Yahoo)
• NYS Documents on the Web

United Nations Documents

We also selectively purchase U. N.  documents.  

• Use the online and Dewey catalogs to find cataloged U.N. documents.
• Use UNDOC,  a microfiche index to U.N. documents 1993-1996, and AccessUN to identify uncataloged U.N. documents.
• Use Official Web Site Locator for the United Nations System of Organizations for links to U.N. agency web sites.