Government Document Depository

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone.

Lambuth University is a Government Documents Depository. LU receives approximately 27% of the documents available from the GPO (Government Printing Office). Lambuth became a Federal Depository for Government Documents in 1967. This is another excellent resource that the library provides for its students, faculty, and staff. Patrons can search government documents using the library catalog or go to the depository website by clicking on the link. The Depository web site is: http://www.lambuth.edu/academics/library/GovernmentDocuments.html. Electronic access to documents is available as well as a wide range of documents on paper. Please see a library staff member if you have any questions about the Government Documents collection.

What can you find in the Government Documents collection?

Some of the interesting things you can find in the collection:
-procedures used in the selection and seating of juries
-published papers of the U.S. Presidents
-2000 Census
-access to the U.S. Constitution
-links to statistical resources
-read the proceedings from what happened yesterday in the U.S. Congress
-government documents pertaining to the Iraq War and terrorism

"A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives."-James Madison

Word of the Day: insufferable (adj)-incapable of being endured; intolerable.

Answer to the previous trivia question: Malcolm X

Today's trivia Question: On this day in 1537, what monarch declared St. Valentine's Day an official holdiay?