Search Engines
- USA.GOV
- Access Washington Washington State maintains an extensive web site which contains a wealth of economic, demographic and other information.
- Find-it! Washington An online search tool developed to help Washington State citizens find government information. Web documents from around the state, government publications available at public and state libraries, and government information and services maintained by the State Dept. of Information Services are included.
- Government of CanadaThe home page for the Canadian federal government. It has a search box.
Databases
Depository Collections
Western is a depository library for U.S. government publications. The federal government sends WWU thousands of publications, which the university promises to make available to the public. Western has been a depository since the 1960s and has hundreds of thousands of federal publications.
Western is also a depository for Washington state and Canadian federal documents. Besides paper, fiche, CD-ROMs and posters, Western sometimes receives exclusive acceess to federal websites. For example, the Homeland Security Digital Library is only available through depository libraries.
Most government publications can be found in the library catalog. (However, most U.S. federal documents published before 1976 are NOT in the catalog.) Most government documents circulate. They can be checked out by anyone with valid identification, not just Western students.
If you need help please call the Reference Desk at 360-650-3094 or contact Rob Lopresti.
Librarian |
 Rob Lopresti |
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