Mount Union College receives and maintains a collection of various federal government publications for public use. Among those available to the public are core documents of United States democracy: statutes, congressional hearings, related legislative information, and U.S. Supreme Court cases. Strenghts of the collection include publications from the Departments of Agriculture, Education, Labor, and Interior (U.S. Geological Survey).
Internet site links provide access to federal, state, and international information, judicial and legal resources, and numerous web based statistical sources
Federal Depository services at the Mount Union College Library are available to the general public as well as the Mount Union College Library Community.
Reference Service is available during general reference hours:
Sunday evenings from 6pm to 10 p.m.
Mondays thru Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and evenings 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon.
The Government Documents Department can also be reached by calling 330-823-3842.
The following sites provide access to federal, state, and international information, judicial and legal resources,and numerous web based statistical sources.
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USA.gov is the U.S. government's official web portal to all federal, state and local government web resources and services.
Federal Government: General Information and Resources
- Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
- Catalog of U.S. Government Information
- Congressional Pictorial Directory 108th Congress
- Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
- IRS Forms and Publications
- US Government Manual
- US House of Representatives
- US Senate Home Page
- White House Home Page
Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information
- GPO Access Search and retrieve congressional information from the US Government Printing Office
- Library of Congress (Legislative Branch Internet Resources)
- Thomas (search & retrieve legislation from the 103rd to current congresses)
State Information
- State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information(Cornell University)
- State Government Collections -- try one of the following:
Judicial and Legal Resources
- American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO!)
- FindLaw
- Legal Information Institute, Cornell University
- U.S. Supreme Court
International and Foreign Information
- Country Studies (Library of Congress)
- Documents Center (University of Michigan)
- US State Department Home Page
- United Nations
Statistical Resources
- Agricultural Statistics
- American FactFinder
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Censtats
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CIA World Factbook
- The Condition of Education, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
- Crime and Justice Electronic Data Abstracts (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
- Crime in the United States (Uniform Crime Reports) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
- Digest of Education Statistics 1990 - 2005
- EDGAR, Securities and Exchange Commission (Corporate Information filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)
- Fedstats (Search engine for government statistics and data)
- FRASER - Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
- FRED, Federal Reserve Economic Data
- Geodata.gov - Geospatial One Stop - from the Geological Survey, all available map materials
- Health, United States 2007 (National Center for Health Statistics)
- Healthy People 2010
- InfoNation (United Nations comparative statistical database)
- National Center for Health Statistics
- Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-2009
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
- State and County Quick Facts
- The State of Aging and Health in America Report 2007
- Statistical Abstract of the United States - 2008, earlier years
- TranStats, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
- United Nations Statistical Division
- US Census Bureau
