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Guide to United States Government Documents
http://law-library.rutgers.edu/resources/usdocspath.php
Rutgers Law Library exists to support the research and study needs of the students, faculty and staff of Rutgers School of Law at Newark. Members of the public can use the resources of Rutgers Law Library to conduct legal research. Rutgers Law Library has been a selective depository in the U.S. Documents Program since 1979, when Public Law 95-161 designated the libraries of accredited law schools to be eligible for participation in the program. Prior to 1979, the Law Library received some of the law-related Depository documents from the John Cotton Dana Library. Thus, the Law Library has extensive holdings of U.S. Government documents from before 1979. Currently, as a selective depository, the library elects to receive those documents which are deemed most useful to law school patrons and the citizens of our Congressional district. Presently the library selects about 25% of what is available to libraries, a portion of which (10%) are health-related materials that are sent to the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey as part of a selective housing agreement. The Law Library is located near the Newark Public Library, which, as the regional depository for the state of New Jersey, receives all the documents in the program. The John Cotton Dana Library, also on the Rutgers-Newark Campus, receives a significant percentage of non-law related documents available through the program. When one thinks of government documents, Congressional hearings and reports, court decisions and agency regulations come to mind. The Government Printing Office (GPO) also produces other valuable materials such as Internal Revenue Service publications, statistical compilations, reports, studies, and books on a wide variety of topics. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
