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.
Selected Documents Web Sites
Useful Sites for Documents Collections Operations
Official Sites
New York State Sites
- 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
Other Sites
- 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: from the 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: links to the most-requested downloadable government electronic forms, from the University of Memphis
- Glossary of Terms used for U.S. Government Publications: Central Washington University Library
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Government Documents Round Table (GODORT):
- 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: titles which have moved from print to the Web, from the University of Memphis
- Procedures for Processing Government Documents at Drew University Library, by Anne L. Noss.
- Resources of Use to Government Documents Librarians: includes GODORT and Depository Library Council information, and professional associations and listservs, from the University of California, Berkeley
- Student Procedures Index: Michigan State University Government Documents Library
- The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk
- What's New at OECD
Web Sites for Documents-Related Publishers
Print Resources
Web Site Tools
- 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
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Color:
- 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
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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
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