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The following are a selection of the most useful tools for the administration of Federal and New York State depository collections and public web pages associated with those collections.

• NYU - Bobst Library's U.S. Government and Political Science Resources
• NYU Law Library Gateway
• University of California, Berkeley - Government & Social Science Information
• University of California, Riverside - InfoMine: Government Information
• University of California, Santa Barbara - Government: U.S.
• University of Memphis - Government Publications Department
• University of Michigan - Documents Center
• U.S. Depository Libraries WWW Home Pages: compiled by Lily Wai, University of Idaho

• Documents Expediting Project, Library of Congress
• Government Printing Office (GPO)
  
  
  • Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP Desktop)
    
    
    •  Administrative Notes & Technical Supplements & WEBTech Notes
    • askLPS Inquiry Form
    • Calendar
    • Contacts
    • Depository Library Directory
    • Fact Sheets
    • Federal Depository Library Manual (1993) & Supplements
    • GPO Cataloging Guidelines
    • Instructions to Depository Libraries
    • Item Lister
    • List of Classes
    • Needs & Offers List
    • Plans & Studies
    • PURL Search Form
    • Workstation Specifications
    • Shipping Lists
    • Superseded List
    • Surveys
    • Title 44 Laws
    • Web Claim Form
• GPO Access
• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (MOCAT)
• Locator Services
  
  
  • New Electronic Titles
  • Browse By Topic
  • U.S. Government Printing Office's PURL Information Page
• Internal Revenue Service: Banks, Post Office and Library (BPOL) Program

• e-Gov FirstStop
• New York State Document Depository Program
  
  
  • Checklist of Official Publications of the State of New York
  • Monthly Shipping Lists for Depository Libraries
• New York State Regional Depository Information

• ARL Federal Relations E-News
• Basic Depository Library Documents (Thomas G. Tyler, University of Denver Library)
• Core List of Paper Documents
  A wish list from Louisiana State University
• Documents Data Miner 2 (Wichita State University)
  Note: Registration required.
• Electronic Format SuDoc Numbers in [Latest] List of Classes (University of North Carolina, Asheville)
• Enhanced Shipping List Service
  Search and print shipping lists by item number, SuDoc number, or title order; automatically check your inclusion list against shipping lists and print Call Number labels for your library, from the State University of New York at Buffalo and the FDLP
• An Explanation of the Superintendent of Documents Classification System (Tom Tyler, University of Denver)
• Forms From the Feds (University of Memphis)
  Links to the most-requested downloadable government electronic forms.
  
• Glossary of Terms used for U.S. Government Publications (Central Washington University Library)
• Government Documents Round Table (GODORT)
  
  
  • GODORT: comprehensive GODORT organizational and membership information and links, hosted by the University of California at Berkeley
  • AALL/GODORT Gov Docs Online Tutorial
  • GODORT Cataloging Committee
    
    
    • Cataloging Pre-1976 U.S. Government Publications
    • Toolbox for Processing and Cataloging Federal Government Documents
  • GODORT Education Committee
    
    
    • Approaches to Organizing Government Information Web Pages
      GOVDOC-L User Guide (Duke University)
    • Government Information and Depository Management Clearinghouse
    • Google Usenet Groups Archive: type "govdoc-l" in the Search Groups box to pull up the current and archived GOVDOC-L postings
  • GODORT Federal Documents Task Force (U. of Southern California)
  • GODORT Government Information Technology Committee (GITCO) (University of California, Berkeley)
    
    
    • Government Information Web Page Template, with instructions for modification
    • CD-ROM Documentation Project
  • GODORT Handout Exchange (University of Michigan)
  • GODORT International Documents Task Force
    
    
    • Links to Foreign Governments
    • Links to International Governmental Organizations
    • Toolbox for Processing and Cataloging International Government Documents
  • GODORT State and Local Documents Task Force Web Resources
• GOVDOC-L Listserv (Columbia use only)
• GOVDOC-L User Guide
• Internet Library for Librarians: Government Documents
  Contains general and state government resources such as GPO access service, links to federal agencies, resources for government document librarians, etc.
• Internet Scout Net Happenings
  Current Awareness: daily listings of new Internet resources
• The Internet Scout Report
  Annotated web reviews in subject areas, from a team of librarians at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.
  Source of some useful publications, including the Legislative SIS Membership Directory and Source Book, which compares all of the major online sources of legislative information
•  Learning SuDocs Call Numbers (Michigan State University Government Documents Library)
  Includes a call number quiz and shelving exercises.
• The Library Web Manager's Reference Center: Current Awareness Resources
  Links and searchable interfaces to a number of current awareness tools.
• Migrating Government Publications (University of Memphis)
  Titles which have moved from print to the Web, from the
  
• Procedures for Processing Government Documents at Drew University Library (Anne L. Noss)
• Resources of Use to Government Documents Librarians (University of California, Berkeley)
  Includes GODORT and Depository Library Council information, and professional associations and listservs.
  
• Student Procedures Index (Michigan State University Government Documents Library)
• The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk
• What's New at OECD

• Bernan Associates: includes UNIPUB
• Broadfoot Publishing
• Carroll Publishing
• Congressional Observer Publications
• Congressional Quarterly
• Claitor's Law Books & Publishing
• The Gale Group, including:
  
  
  • Documents Index: Andriot
  • Primary Source Microfilm
• Geolytics
• Government Institutes
• William S. Hein & Co.
• Klipsan Press
• LexisNexis Academic, including:
  
  
  • CIS: Congressional Information Service
  • UPA: University Publications of America
• Marcive
• National Security Archive
• NewsBank/Readex
• Norman Ross
• NTIS: Catalogs of Publications
• NYC CityStore
• NYC Dept. of City Planning Bookstore
• Penny Hill Press
• Potomac Publishing
• ProQuest Information and Learning, including:
  
  
  • ProQuest
  • UMI Microform & Print
  • Chadwyck-Healey

• Government Information Quarterly - (JAI Press) - Quarterly, $180
  
• The Internet Connection (Glasser LegalWorks) - 10/year, $99
• Journal of Government Information (Pergamon) - Bimonthly, $425

• Adobe Acrobat download site
• The Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability
  Bi-weekly column by Dr. Jakob Nielsen, principal, Nielsen Norman Group
• Controlling Document Backgrounds
• Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Color
  
  • The Browser Safe Color Palette: colors that should look the same on any platform
  • Hex and Word Colors Codes
  • 216 Color Square
• Developing and Delivering Government Services on the World Wide web: Recommended Practices for New York State
  A primer for NYS agencies on Web development, but also useful for docs librarians.
  Note: Going to this site will automatically download the document to your computer; you must also have the Adobe Acrobat viewer in order to read it.
• Doctor HTML
• Graphics:
  
  • Clip Art Searcher: facilitates finding art, backgrounds, animations, sounds, etc., through a number of specialized search engines
  • Free Art Site: from Laurie McCanna, author of Creating Great Web Graphics
  • The Pavilion of Icons: a source for icons and tools, for all platforms
  • Realm Graphics: textures, bullets, buttons, and icons
  • Web Clip Art
• HTML: an Interactive Tutorial for Beginners
• The About.com Guide to HTML/XML
  A comprehensive site with information broken down into useful sections.
• New and Cool Web Tools
  Links to Selected Web Development Tools for Your Downloading Pleasure
• The Table Sampler
  Examples and HTML code for all kinds of tables.
• Using Tables
  Beyond the basics -- links to more advanced tables guides, from About.com
• Webmonkey: a How-to Guide for Web Developers, from HotWired
• WebReference
  All things web.
• WebTeacher: Your Source for Web Knowledge
  Comprehensive interactive tutorials on all aspects of the web
• Writing for the Web, Jeffrey Zeldman