Finding Government Information at Lehigh

Since 1998 all Federal government publications have records in ASA, the Lehigh library online catalog. ASA is a web capable catalog and any URLs (hotlinks to web sites) included in the records of electronic publications will take you to directly to the Internet versions of these materials. Congressional hearings have been added to ASA since 1990 and the library is in the midst of a project to include records for all government publications from 1976 forward.

To search for government documents that do not appear in ASA it is necessary to search the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications. This catalog is available in printed form in the Government Documents Department Reference Stacks under the call number 015.73 U5m and dates back to 1936. Publications issued since 1976 can be located by searching subject, title or author in the GPO Monthly Catalog on FIRSTSEARCH , or use the database, MarciveWeb DOCS. MarciveWeb DOCS will indicate if the document is one that the Lehigh Library selects through the depository library system. Most of the Library's government documents are shelved in the Documents Area, using the Superintendent of Documents classification. The Government Documents Area is on the second floor of the Fairchild-Martindale Library, South Wing.

Some documents have a Dewey Decimal call number and are integrated into the Library's book and periodical stacks. United States Geological Survey topographic maps selected by Lehigh University are housed in the Government documents department. Selected Pennsylvania government publications are also cataloged in ASA. The Pennsylvania Documents collection is located adjacent to the U.S. Hearings collection in the Government Documents area of Fairchild Library.

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