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Government Resources

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Federal Bulletin Board
Includes White House organizations, federal agency files, congressional and legislative information, U.S. Supreme Court opinions, GPO Access information, Commerce Business Daily, Federal Depository Library information, and an alphabetical list of all file libraries.

FDLP Desktop
Targeted to documents librarians and staff of the more than 1,300 libraries that comprise the Federal Depository Library Program.

Although the site is open to the public it is really an "Intranet on the Web" and offers a limited amount of material that might be of general interest.

Government Information Locator Service
A way to identify, locate, and describe publicly available Federal information resources, including electronic information resources.

GPO Access Databases
Includes government information databases, tools to locate government information, collections of government information available through the Federal Depository Libraries, and federal agency files available for download.

GPO's Online Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
A search and retrieval service that provides bibliographic records of U.S. Government information resources.

Needs and Offers List
A tool used by depository librarians for collection development purposes, in which selective depositories seeking to dispose of publications withdrawn from their collections may place publications with other depositories.

New Electronic Titles (NET)
Includes new additions to the Federal Depository Library Program Electronic Collection (FDLP/EC) during the most recent four weeks.

Browse Topics
Arranges government Internet sites by subject topic.