Resources for Documents Librarianship

Documents Data Miner, from Wichita State University, provides a number of services to U.S. depository libraries, including a downloadable List of Classes selection profiles, and shipping lists.

FDLP Desktop, contains information about the Federal Depository Library Program.

• Administrative Notes is the monthly newsletter of the FDLP.
• Needs and Offers is a collection management tool where depository librarians seeking to dispose of publications withdrawn from their collections may place publications with other depositories, and libraries seeking publications missing from their depository collections may post to the lists which can be viewed by other depositories.
• Superceded List, a list used to identify Superintendent of Documents classification stems for materials that become obsolete or dated therefore can be discarded prior to the 5-year retention period.
  

Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT), provides a forum for the discussion of problems and concerns and for the exchange of ideas among librarians working with government documents.

• DttP: Documents to the People is the official publication of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the American Library Association (ALA).
• GODORT Handout Exchange and Clearinghouse a collection of guides to government information sources written by library staff across the country.
• Learning SuDocs Call Numbers, a tutorial used to teach the SuDocs call number system.0

Government Documents Librarianship, from the University of Michigan, has links to many useful sites for documents librarians.

Government Printing Office, the largest publisher in the United States and the federal agency responsible for gathering, authenticating, preserving, and distributing published government information in all its formats.

Illinois State Library, the Regional Depository Library for the State of Illinois

• Directory of Federal Depository in Illinois
  
  
  1. Federal Depositories by Depository Library Number
  2. Federal Depositories by Library System
  3. Federal Depositories in Illinois
     
     
• Federal Depository Library Discard Lists, guidelines on how Illinois Federal Depositories can create and post discard lists for the purposes of offering withdrawn documents to other Illinois Depsitories.