Most federal governmental agencies and all State of Kansas agencies are represented in the E.S.U. documents collection. Emporia State University was designated as a federal depository library in 1909 and as such, automatically receives publications selected from a list of available documents. It became a full depository for the State of Kansas in 1977. However, not all documents published by government agencies are available to depository libraries. Many of the government publications appear in the library online catalog.
Access is by author, title, keyword, or subject.
There are also several print and electronic indexes which locate documents, most of which are organized by subject. Sudoc numbers begin with a letter or combination of letters which stand for the publishing agency. Following are numbers, letters, and punctuation, all of which are important in the location process. Assistance may be needed to locate documents. Most of the U.S. and Kansas documents may be checked out at the circulation desk.