Federal Government Electronic Publishing

• Cybercemetery
  Archive of defunct U.S. government agency and commission Web sites.

• New Titles and New Electronic Titles
  Government Printing Office.

For Kids

• U.S. Government Web Sites for Kids
  Most guides are arranged by agency. This one is nice because it has a list by subject. From Ben's Guide.

• Kids.gov (FCIC)

• Kids' Pages

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Documents Librarianship Information (Delaware Area)

• Depository Libraries in Delaware

• Documents Association of New Jersey (DANJ)

• U.S. Government Information, Maps & GIS Services: A Regional Federal Depository Library (U of Maryland/College Park Library)
  The Regional Depository of Delaware is the University of Maryland at College Park Library, at the McKeldin Library. Includes: Resources for Federal Depository Libraries, Maryland, Delaware & Washington, D.C. Region.

Documents Librarianship Information

• FDLP Desktop (Federal Depository Library Program)

• Government Documents Librarianship
  

• Government Information Clearinghouse & Handout Exchange
  From the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT).

• Government Documents Round Table (GODORT)
  Includes Current News & Updates, Fact Sheets, and other information useful to depository librarians.

• Government Records Section of the Society of American Archivists

• Toolbox for Processing and Cataloging Federal Government Documents (University of Delaware)

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Resources for Training & Learning

• Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
  Good presentation of basic facts about how government works, how bills become laws, etc.

• The Superintendent of Documents Classification System: An Explanation of the SuDoc Numbers (Angelo State University, Texas)

• Legislative Research: A Web-Based Bibliographic Instruction Program
  From the Documents Center at the University of Michigan.

• Legislative Source Book (Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.)

• Federal Register Tutorial (Office of the Federal Register)

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Special Lists and Guides

• Census Index (Ohio State University Libraries)
  A combined index of publications from the U.S. decennial censuses. Includes Catalog of United States Census Publications: 1790-1945 by Henry J. Dubester and Bureau of the Census Catalog.

• Science Tracer Bullets Online (Library of Congress) (1990 to present)
  Research guides to important health and science topics.

• Serial Set Information

  • Serial Set Holdings at the University of Delaware Library (UD Library)

  • Numerical Lists of Documents and Reports
  • Schedule of Volumes to the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1970 to Current (LLSDC)
  • U.S. Congressional Serial Set Finding List (College of Wooster Libraries)
    Identifies agency publications that are in the Serial Set.
  • U.S. Congressional Serial Set Inventory (University of North Texas)
    When completed the project will be a complete inventory of serial set holdings in U.S. libraries, from volume 1 through volume 13219-3. 
  • U.S. Congressional Serial Set: What It Is and Its History

• U.S. Congressional Bibliographies (NCSU)

• Using the CIS Historical Hearings Microfiche Set (1833-1969) (University of Delaware Library)

• Dates of Sessions of the Congress (current first)

• Dates of Sessions of the Congress (oldest first)

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Style Manuals / Bibliographic Citations for Government Publications

• The Complete Guide to Citing Government Information Resources: A Manual for Social Science & Business Research by Debora Cheney. (Morris Library - Ref J9.5 .C44x 2002).

• Bibliographic Form: U.S. Government Documents

• Citing Electronic Information (University of Colorado at Boulder)

• How to Cite Electronic Sources (Library of Congress)
  Includes citations to online photographs and other unusual materials.

• Citing Maps (Ohio Wesleyan University Libraries)
  Includes dynamically generated maps.

• Citing Government Documents (UMich Documents Center)

• Citing Records in the National Archives of the United States (General Information Leaflet Number 17)

• DocsCite (Arizona State University Libraries)
  This is more than a guide to citing; it is a citation generator.

• How to cite electronic, print and microfiche congressional publications
  Citation information from LexisNexis Congressional. [restricted to UD users]

• Suggested Citation Styles for our Internet Information (Census Bureau)
  Covers citing of dynamically generated tables.

• RefWorks @ the University of Delaware Library -- a Quick Guide (UD Library)