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U.S. Government Documents Collection

Vassar has been a Federal Depository Library for selected U.S. Government documents since 1943 and currently receives approximately 25% of the titles available through the Federal Depository Program. Most of the publications are added to the "Documents Collection" which is arranged by the Superintendent of Documents (Su Doc) classification system. A few titles are in the Main Library collection (Library of Congress classification system and an increasing number are available electronically.

For a guide to finding documents in the Library and outside, check Finding U.S. Government Documents.
For a guide to tracing legislation, check our Guide to Basic Sources of United States Law
For information on other depository libraries in the region, consult the list of Federal Document Depository Libraries in the SENYLRC Region.

New York State Government Documents

Since 1988, Vassar has been a New York State Reference Center, part of the New York Depository Program. State documents are part of the cataloged collection and can be accessed through the online catalog. Titles available electronically will be linked through the WebPac or by going to the New York State Library website. U. S. and New York State documents are available to the public.

Sources of information about New York State documents including those on the Internet:

United Nations Documents

The library also selectively purchases United Nations documents. The scheme for finding a U.N. publication is similar to that for finding a U.S. Government document. Cataloged U.N. documents may be found by using the online and Dewey card catalogs. Uncataloged U.N. documents may be identified by using UNDOC, the index to U.N. documents and AccessUN. For links to UN agency websites, use Official Web Site Locator for the United Nations System of Organizations.