It's accessed by keyword, and provides abstracts of the publications indexed. Some of these publications indexed by these titles, particularly those from the Federal government, are available in paper in the documents stacks or in the library's main book stacks. But many other publications indexed here are available in microfiche. The State and Metropolitan Area Data Book provides data for U.S., regions, divisions, states, SMAs, and counties. You locate date through tables outlined in the preface.
End notes contain source notes and explanations.
The County and City Data Book covers U.S., states, counties, cities of 25,000 or more, places of 2,500 or more. You locate data through tables outlined in the preface. End notes contain source notes and explanations. The University of Michigan's Documents Center has a number of great web pages. The Federal Web Locator is a service provided by the Center for Information Law and Policy at Villanova University's School of Law, and is intended to be the one stop shopping point for federal government information on the World Wide Web.