Items are received in all formats: paper, microform and electronic. Selected documents are cataloged and will appear when searching the online catalog. For all documents, the Marcive Web Docs LINK, located on the Library’s database page, will access a database containing documents dating from 1976 to the present. The holdings feature of the database indicates whether Lovejoy Library selects that item.

    For information on documents published before 1976 and for items that the Library does not select please contact the Documents/Map Librarian, Gary N. Denue at 618-650-2632 or via email at gdenue@siue.edu or the Library Technical Assistant,George Gay at 618-650-2603 or via email at ggay@siue.edu

   In addition to physical documents located on site, the Federal Government has initiated innovative programs of publication on the Internet. The following links will guide you directly to these resources or provide indices to aid you in searching for the resources.However, remember that the quality and reliability of Internet resources varies greatly from site to site, over periods of time, and with the site sponsor.  Evaluation of the accuracy and use of the information is the responsibility of the user.

  For an overview of how to locate government information on the Worldwide Web, please use the following tutorial: How to Effectively Locate Federal Government Information on the World Wide Web. This "hands-on" workshop is designed to demostrate how to maximize retrieval of fedaral government information on the Web.Instruction on the best strategies for searching the major online sources includes: Know the Structure to Find the Information; Using Search Engines and Subject Indexes to Locate Federal Information; Laws of the Land; Statistics, demographics and other useful data."