Education Library, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University Finding Government Documents on the Shelf Government Documents at the Education Library are organized under a different classification scheme from the general collection. In this system documents are organized by the agency which issues them. They are assigned alphanumeric call numbers based on the agency and type of publication.
All numbers are whole numbers.
Remember that periods are section dividers and that there are no decimals. If you remember that the sections of letters are always shelved alphabetically, the numbered sections are always arranged in numerical order and that nothing always precedes something, you should be able to locate an item most of the time. Now try the SuDocs Self-Test to see what you've learned. Content by the Education Library. Jean Reese , Education Library.