Everything Old
Is New Again
Finding Government
Document Collections
Reborn Online
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Note
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clips. In their place are notes about the
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Cheryl Nyberg, July 19, 2007
[Music]
Crosby Stills & Nash
Love the One You’re with
 Covered
by
The Meters
Brian Cline Band
‘Ate Is Enough
 Locate
 Habitate
 Evaluate
 Populate
 Imitate
 Appreciate
[Music]
The Who: I’m Free
Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of
Ethnology
Annual Reports, 1881 – 1933
Foreign Relations of the US
Provider
Presidents
Dates
Vols.
1862 – 1960
Lincoln –
Eisenhower
369
Lincoln –
Nixon/Ford
1862 – 1976
346
Truman –
Nixon/Ford
1945 – 72
76
26,000+
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/
1995
1996
Office of Technology Assessment
Advisory Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations
1997 National Bankruptcy Review
Commission
1998 Advisory Commission on Electronic
Commerce
2001 National Partnership for
Reinventing Government
2002 National Education Goals Panel
2003 Columbia Accident Investigation
Board
2004 National Commission on Terrorist
Attacks Upon the United States
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php
[Music]
Queen: We Are the Champions
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/
Winner
2007 AALL
Public Access to
Government
Information
Award
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php
1929 - 2001
Declassified Documents
•Bay of Pigs
•Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
•“The Family Jewels”
•U-2 Pilot Gary Powers
Budget of the US Government, 1963-80
Economic Indicators, 1948-date
Economic Report of the President, 1947-date
Survey of Current Business, 1921-98
1970s – date
Winner
2007 AALL
Public Access to
Government
Information
Award
Challenge: Archaic Language
Consult antique general & legal dictionaries
 Morris Cohen’s Bibliography of Early
American Law, vol. 1.
 Hein Online > Legal Classics Library >
Dictionaries
 LLMC Digital > Anglo-American
Collections > Legal Reference >
Dictionaries
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Code of Federal Regulations, 1938 –
Congressional Record
Federal Register, 1936 –
Official Opinions of the Attorneys General, 1797
– 1982
Public Papers of the Presidents, 1897 –
US Reports, 1754 –
US Statutes at Large, 1798 –
US Treaties, 1776 –
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Indexing
Metadata
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Integration
Back to the Future
[Music]
Ronnie & the Daytonas: Little GTO (little
GPO)
Legacy Collection
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2.2 million print
publications
60 million pages
GPO’s Strategic
Vision for the 21st
Century (Dec. 2004)
Future Digital System
(FDsys)
Desirable Dozen+
1. Congressional
Record (bound)
2. CFR
3. Serial Set
4. U.S. Treaties
5. Treaties & Other
International Acts
6. Statutes at Large
7. Federal Register
8. U.S. Reports
9. U.S. Code
10. Official Opinions of
the Attorneys
General
11. House Bills
12. Senate Bills
13. IRS Cumulative
Bulletin
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