Government Documents are books, pamphlets, magazines, maps, posters, CD-ROMs, diskettes and Internet sites published by state, federal and foreign governments and international agencies. As a depository library for state and federal documents, Murphy Library regularly receives many free documents from the United States government and the state of Wisconsin.
Federal documents come in several formats.
This compact disk format is ideal to hold large quantities of statistics or text. Many federal, state, and international documents are available on the Internet. Government Documents are available on almost any topic imaginable. The library has documents on agriculture, AIDS, business, cooking, the environment, the rights of people with disabilities, child abuse, foreign countries, art, American history, solar energy, recreation, crime, fish, and outer space. The federal government is the world's greatest collector of statistics.