Overview

In 1890 the United States Senate designated what is now Perkins Library a Federal Depository Library. The Public Documents and Maps collection has now grown to hold U.S. federal materials from the founding of the nation to the present day, totaling over 1 million publications in paper, microfiche and electronic formats.

Contacts

• Subject Librarian contact information
• Mark Thomas, Federal Documents Librarian

Local Duke Resources

• Subject Guides
• Class Guides
• Search Public Documents in the online catalog

General Links

• USA.gov
• Science.gov - deep search the government web for scientific materials 
• A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments 
• FDSys - Congressional, regulatory and judicial materials 
• Thomas - legislative information from Congress 

Current Interest

• Travel Information - passports, exchange rates, security info.
• Weather information
•  Current legislative activity in Congress.
• Visit America's National Parks.
• Compare fuel economy of cars. 
• Information on organic agriculture.
• Healthy Living from the Centers for Disease Control. 

Recently Acquired

New books in the Public Documents collection during the last week.  (Some may be UN or other non-US material.)