Irwin Library Government Depository Library

On May 14, 1965 Congressman Andrew Jacobs Jr. designated the Irwin Library at Butler University in Indianapolis as a Selective Government Depository Library. Irwin currently selects 22% and utilizes the SuDoc classification system as well as Library of Congress classification. Many Government Printing Office (GPO) documents have been cataloged and are accessible through the regular library catalog. Other uncataloged items are available to the public in SuDocs order in the Annex quadrant of the Irwin Library's basement.

• How to search for government publications in the Irwin catalog:Use the Advanced Search, and include the Federal Government Bureau or Office (if known), or simply add "Supt. of Docs" or "GPO" to your keyword search.
• Federal Depository Library Program - Basic Collection of Federal publications.
• GPO - U.S. Government Printing Office, Catalog of U.S. Government Publications - Search for tangible and electronic publications from the three branches of Government.
• NTiS - National Technical Information Service - Largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information.
• THOMAS - The Library of Congress - Legislative information from the Library of Congress.
• U.S. Census Bureau - U.S. Department of Commerce.
• PubMed - comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
• CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Publications.
• State of Indiana Government.
• Google Advanced Search - Use the popular Google search engine to perform searches that will retrieve items only from official U.S. federal, state, and local government web sites. In the last search box, type .gov or .mil to restrict your search to those domain names.