These materials can be found in the General Library Collections and the Government Publications Collections. This course guide is designed to help you focus on some of the most relevant information resources in your subject area. Such agencies can be at international, national, state, regional, county, or local levels. In addition to typical government documents such as laws, congressional hearings, and court reports, there are a variety of materials on a wide range of topics. These include such things as census data, economic data, educational reports, environmental studies, industrial surveys, health information, marketing research, legal materials, and statistics on just about any subject imaginable. such as Art and American Culture.
Government information is considered to be a primary source.
Primary sources are defined as the raw, unanalyzed material that is the starting point and basis of all good research. A primary source can be anything that offers a first-hand account, such as letters, maps, photographs, paintings, a poem, the manuscript of a novel, a newspaper advertisement, a diary, census data, statistics or a report. Finding Government Publications in the Libraries of the Claremont Colleges Click here to find out how to find government publications in our libraries. Not all of the government publications are in Blais, and require special finding tools to locate them. See below for information on using special finding tools.