U.S. Government Documents Collection
The Law Library has been a congressionally designated depository since 1971 selecting approximately 8-10% of the documents offered with a preference for those in electronic format. The year 1971 does not effectively represent the depth of the collection however. Since the early 1980s the Law Library has been accepting, housing and promoting collections weeded from the Purdy/Kresge Library. The Law Library’s collection emphasizes federal executive, legislative and administrative publications. The depository collection contains an almost complete collection of superseded editions of the Code of Federal Regulations and has a nearly complete print copy of the U.S. Serial Set. The print collection has been enhanced with microfiche collections such as the CIS Complete Collection, U.S. Congress House and Senate Hearings, U.S. Congress Senate Executive Documents and Reports, and U.S. Congress House and Senate Committee Prints.
The collection is arranged according to the Superintendent of Documents (SUDocs) number. Most documents are searchable in the library catalog by title, subject, keyword or SUDocs number. Many documents can circulate outside the building on a 28 day loan.