All are available online as well. It has public laws and bill summaries since 1973, House and Senate roll call votes for the past several years, the Congressional Record text and index since 1994, bills full text since 1993, links to committee Home Pages, and other things. A source giving brief information for all the states is the annual Council of State Governments Book of the States. One of its supplements, Directory III, Administrative Officials, lists all the state departments of health, labor, public land, and so on. Many state governments have extensive Web sites that include directory, program, and statistical information.
Many libraries have access to catalogs of other libraries in their state or region.
There are many guides to help one find out about books and magazines in general. Magazines can be identified in such bibliographies as Standard Periodical Directory, Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, and Ulrich's International Serials Directory. Several of these publications are offered online as well. Online booksellers make it easy to find if titles are currently for sale. This document was produced by the Congressional Research Service.