Patrons can arrange admittance to this room through the reference staff. Materials are available through interlibrary loan as long as duplicate copies are owned. Approximately 15,000 Vermont titles dating from the 1770s to the present covering all aspects of Vermont history. The bulk of the collection is manually cataloged. All acquisitions beginning in 1985 are included in an online catalog available to the public.
Older materials are in a separate collection within the rare book room.
The DOL has the major collection of Vermont newspapers on microfilm in the state including some of the earliest known publications. All current acquisitions are being added to our online catalog. We have a significant collection of Vermont town reports in bound volumes through 1982 with 1983 to current in microfiche. We have a limited number of other local government documents. We have similar runs of Vermont Supreme Court opinions and briefs as well as opinions of state regulatory boards.