The University Libraries are dedicated to procuring and maintaining a research level collection of state and local documents for any time period and in any format. Every agency is mandated by law to furnish a copy of each of its publications for distribution to the Virginia State Documents Depository Libraries.
Deposited material is supplemented when needed with purchased and gift materials.
These items are available through our online catalog. Items of an ephemeral nature such as pamphlets and brochures, dated materials and periodicals geared toward agency employees remain uncataloged and are retained on a short term basis or discarded. The ephemeral items are segregated in a vertical file. The majority of Virginia documents are published in book, periodical or pamphlet format on paper and are located in the libraries' circulating or reference collections. All maps are integrated into the uncataloged map collection.