Office of the Federal Register. The United States Government Manual . Official handbook of the Federal Government. It provides basic background information on the legislative, executive and judicial branches. Quasi-governmental agencies, commissions and international organizations to which the United States belongs are also described.
Earlier editions are available in the stacks.
The US Government Manual is also available from GPO Access on the world wide web. This database covers all disciplines with indexing for nearly 3000 periodicals. It contains the full-text of articles for over 1200 periodicals beginning in 1990. Restricted to SJU students, faculty, administration, and staff via SJU Proxy Server . This is a useful database for locating scholarly historical articles on the development of the three branches of government.