Assistance Basic information about government publications Government information includes any publications issued by local, state, national, or international governments. If you are writing a research paper, a search for government information on your topic should be an essential step in your search. The documents collection is likely to have information on topics ranging from AIDS to the environment. In fact, it is hard to think of a topic you would not find in government documents.
Government information includes laws, regulations, statistics, consumer information, and much more.
It may be in the form of reference works, books, periodicals, bibliographies, pamphlets, maps, and cd-roms. Government information is generally considered to be reliable. Carrier Library's documents collection Carrier Library contains a sizeable collection of federal and state government documents. As a federal government depository, Carrier Library receives about fifty percent of the government agency publications as they are produced and a complete collection of Congressional hearings since 1976. Carrier Library is also a depository for Virgina state government documents.