Full text of the Federal Register, Congressional Record, bills, laws, U.S. Code and other documents are available online. Legislative information is available from CIS Congressional Compass on our Electronic Resources list. The North Carolina Documents Collection, established in 1984, attained full depository status in 1987. All North Carolina documents are identified in the Library catalog. Many are also available on the Web now.
Many documents are available on microfiche.
They are housed in a cabinet just outside the Government Documents Office, near the paper copies. You can make copies from the microfiche. Government documents in paper format can be checked out just as other materials are and are open to the public for use. All government documents are processed by the Government Documents Department on the second floor near the collection. They have a unique numbering system which is set up by the U. S. Superintendent of Documents.