Government Information: Federal, State & Local  

Superintendent of Documents classification (SuDocs) numbers are assigned by the  U.S. Government Printing Office to all official government publications.  This system arranges materials by issuing agency, not by subject. 
Below is a brief outline of the SuDocs system. Click here for a detailed explanation.

A          Agriculture
AE       National Archives
C         Commerce
C 3      Census Bureau
CR      Civil Rights Commission
CS      Civil Service Commission
D         Defense 
E         Energy
ED       Education
EP       Environmental Protection
FR       Federal Reserve
FT       Federal Trade Comm.       
FTZ     Federal Trade Zone Board
GA      Government Accountability
            Office
GP      Government Printing Office
GS      General Services
HE      Health and Human Services 
HH      Housing and Urban
            Development
I           Interior
I 19      U.S. Geological Survey
IC        Interstate Commerce Comm.
J         Justice
Ju       Judiciary
L         Labor
LC       Library of Congress
LR       National Labor Relations Bd.
NA       National Academy of
            Sciences
NAS     National Aeronautics &
            Space Adm.
NS       National Science Foundation
P         United States Postal Service
PE       Peace Corps
Pr        President of United States
PrEx    Executive Office of the
            President
S          State Department
SBA     Small Business
            Administration
SE       Securities and Exchange
             Commission
SI        Smithsonian Institution
T         Treasury Department
T 22    Internal Revenue Service
TD      Transportation Department
VA       Veterans Administration
X & Y   Congress
X         Congressional Record
           House & Senate Journals
Y 1     Congressional Reports and
           Documents
Y 4     Congressional Hearings 

 The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) was established by Congress to ensure that the American public has access to government  information created at taxpayers' expense.The authority for the FDLP is found in 44 United States Code §§1901‐1616.

UT Libraries was designated a land-grant selective depository library for U.S. Government Documents publications in 1907.The current selection rate is approximately 30 percent of the publications in the List of Classes that are made available to participating depository libraries. UT selections are primarily digital format.

Other Knoxville depositories are:

• UT Law Library
• Knox County Public Library

The regional depository library for the state of Tennessee is located at the The University of Memphis.

The UT Libraries' Online Catalog is the place to begin a search for government publications held by or made accessible by the library. As with other library materials, the catalog shows specific formats and locations for government publications. Search by title, author, subject. SuDocs classification searching is available in the Classic Catalog using the Browse search (pull down menu) for govdoc number search.

See the Government Documents page at: http://www.lib.utk.edu/govdoc/

Print and cd/dvd, government documents shelved by SuDocs number are located in the Storage collection in the Hoskins Library. These materials may be borrowed for regular loan periods. Some Pre-1976 government documents held in the Libraries' collection may not accessible in the online catalog. The shelf list card file in Research Services, is used to verify holdings for uncataloged documents held in Hoskins Storage. It may also be necessary to check print indexes or databases to locate the correct citation in order to find documents published before July 1976.

Microfiche, and pamphlets (20 pages or under) shelved by SuDocs  number  - are located in Hoskins Library, Storage, Reading room area.

Print documents with Library of Congress classification are located in the Hodges Library general collection on the stacks floors, in Reference, or in Hoskins Library Storage.

Department of Agriculture publications (except for Food & Nutrition Service publications) are  located in the Agriculture-Veterinary Medicine Library.

Maps/cartographic materials are located in Map Services.

Librarians are available at the Research Services desk in the Commons to assist with identifying government materials in collections at all locations. Use AskUsNow for telephone, chat, or email assistance.

The List of Classes
A list of publications available for selection by depository libraries participating in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The list is arranged by the Superintendent of Documents classification numbering system and is designed to group together publications by the same government author. Libraries use the List of Classes to work with and identify item numbers that they may want to select or deselect from their item selection profile.

Item Lister
Find a list of item numbers selected by the UT Libraries (enter depository number 0577)

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