Tools for Depository Administration: Catalogs

The BLM Library provides information, collections, and services to all BLM employees in support of their work managing the nation’s public lands.

The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options.
The catalog offers you the option to find a nearby Federal Depository Library that has a particular publication or that can provide expert assistance in finding and using related U.S. government information. Click on the title of interest from your search results list. Then click on the Locate in a Library link within the displayed record.

Compiled by Benjamin Perley Poore. Poore served as clerk of the committee of the United States Senate on printing records, where he edited the Congressional Directory and the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government until December 2018 after which it will be retired in favor of GovInfo. Through FDsys, you are able to:
Search for documents and publications — FDsys provides advanced search capabilities and the ability to refine and narrow your search for quick access to the information you need.
Browse for documents and publications — FDsys offers browsing by collection, Congressional committee, date, and Government author.
Access metadata about documents and publications — FDsys provides information about Government publications in standard XML formats.
Download documents and publications in multiple renditions or file formats — With FDsys, users can download a single file or download content and metadata packaged together in a compressed file.

As of December 2018, this replaces FDsys.gov. Govinfo is a redesign of the FDsys public website, with a focus on implementing feedback from users and improving overall search and access to electronic Federal Government information. The redesigned, mobile-friendly website incorporates innovative technologies and includes several new features for an overall enhanced user experience. It still provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government in full text.

MetaLib is a federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources available online. To learn more, view additional brief or detailed search information.

The NAL Catalog (AGRICOLA) provides citations to agricultural literature.

Find in list. Archived titles for current year and previous.

The New Titles page is an easy way to find all the latest documents added to the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). It provides access to new documents in many different formats, such as print documents, electronic documents, or eBooks. It also provides information on documents that are still in-process. Users can look for documents in a particular range of time by clicking on specific time frames, such as Last Seven Days or Last Three Months.

Check here for publications on a variety of topics using the drop down menu. Publications.USA.gov replaces the former Pueblo.GSA.gov (Consumer Information Catalog). The new site provides better navigation; search; shopping experience; and now some favorite publications in popular e-reader formats. Additionally, social media channels will announce new publications.

Search by Keyword, Title, Agency, ISBN, or Stock Number.

This listing is "an approximately complete checklist of all public documents issued by the United States Government during the first century and a quarter of its history." (p. vii)

Subscription catalog to documents from 1976 to present.

Contributed to Internet Archive by University of Illinois. Not in proper chronological order.

This web site provides public access and preservation services for the nearly 5,000 CD-ROMs, DVDs, and floppy disks distributed by the GPO under the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). These tangible products have been received through the FDLP since the 1980s and consist of millions of individual files containing fundamental data on economics, the environment, population, and life and physical sciences. The products will be more easily accessed through this project as the collection becomes more comprehensive.
It supports browsing the digital documentation and other files such as data, images, audio, and video in convenient alternative formats, as well as searching the collection metadata and full text via a search engine on the site or through popular web search engines. Additional access is provided to the collection through IUCAT (Indiana University's online library catalog), the Indiana State Library Catalog, and OCLC WorldCat.

Covering: Access Policies, Bibliographies, CD-ROMS, Collection Development Policies, Displays & Exhibits, Documents Department Mergers, Documents Department Guides (Digital), Documents Department Guides (Printed), Documents Policies, Electronic Products, Electronic Public Policies, FDSys and GPOAccess, Internet Use Policy, List of Classes, Maps, Marcive, Preservation Policy, Needs and Offers, Processing Procedures, Self-Studies, SUDOCS Numbers, and Training and Tutorials.

Provides access to government information specialist created content in one place to assist with the successful management of government information.

This guide provides an overview of exemplary content created by government information librarians.
It is intended to highlight content created by government information librarians outside of Government libraries or agencies, so resources from Government are not included in this list.

This clearinghouse was established to assist federal depository library staff in creating intriguing and eye-catching displays for promoting government documents collections. A number of displays submitted to us from around the U.S. have been incorporated into this site. This enables others to view displays on numerous topics, as well as the sources used to create them.
You can find an alphabetical Subject List of displays which were featured at various libraries. Simply click on the desired topic to view the photos and source list from the respective library.

Not updated since 2001, but it does give a listing of documents by SuDoc classification number which can potentially be helpful.