Ask at the Reference Desk for assistance. The GPO Access databases contain the full text of some of the most frequently used government information sources. Statistical Abstract of the United States. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, U.S. Government Printing Office. The Statistical Abstract is an annual publication containing useful U.S. statistics.
Selected tables are available on the Internet.
Articles on a particular topic may be identified by using indexes. Note the call number locations. Current issues of periodicals are shelved alphabetically in the Periodicals Room. Older issues of the periodicals are shelved by their call number in the book stacks on the third, second, and lower levels of the Library. Library Networked Databases Family Studies Database provides citations, with abstracts, to research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of family science, human ecology, and human development from 1970 to the present.