Carleton participates in the Federal Depository Library Program, which means that the Library receives select volumes, published by many different parts of the United States government. The library has over 300,000 printed government documents. You can check out and use government documents for research in anything from history to geology, from political science to landscape architecture. All of that information is published in many formats, including print, microfilm, DVD, and, of course, online.
Government publications are classified using a system similar to the Library of Congress Classification system called the Superintendent of Documents, or SuDoc, system. Unlike the rest of the library, where the books are organized by subject, the SuDoc system organizes items by the government agency that produced them. Call numbers begin with a letter followed by numbers with periods, dashes and slashes (for more information, see How to Interpret a SuDoc Number). To learn more about this collection, check out the Government Documents and Information guide.
