Finding New York State Documents

FINDING
NEW YORK STATE
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

Some useful sources...

ELECTRONIC

New York State Library http://unix2.nysed.gov/index.html
Including the NYS Library Catalog, "Excelsior"

New York State Depository Library Program
http://unix2.nysed.gov/nysdep.htm

New York State Documents
http://unix2.nysed.gov/statedoc.htm

New York State Government Information Locator Service
http://unix2.nysed.gov/ils/

Vital Statistics of New York State
http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/vital_statistics/index.htm

New York State
http://www.state.ny.us/

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The New York State Red Book
ref JK 3430 N5
(Ready Reference)

The New York State Directory
ref JK3430 .N52 2003/04
(Ready Reference)

New York State Statistical Yearbook (2003)
ref HA 541 N48 2003
(Ready Reference)

A Checklist of Official Publications of the State of New York
LIB 132-3 CHEOP 79-390
(Government Documents)

HISTORY
Milne Library became a depository for New York State documents in 1962. Our status was officially redesignated as a "Documents Depository Library" in 1989. As a Documents Depository Library (one of four designations in the state depository system), Milne is responsible for collecting, processing, maintaining, and storing material sent to us by the depository program. This includes basic bibliographic tools sent to all libraries in the program, as well as materials from a core collection of documents which are listed in the New York State Document Depository Manual. Documents we receive at Milne include, but are not limited to, such items as annual reports of state agencies, legislative materials, statistical publications, bibliographies, consumer information, and directories.

CLASSIFICATION
New York State documents in Milne Library's collection used a different classification scheme up until 1991. Documents were identified with a prefix of "30-" to identify them as New York documents. Current New York State documents are classified by the three letter abbreviation for the state agency publishing the document.

TIPS FOR LOCATING NEW YORK STATE DOCUMENTS

Excelsior	The New York State Library receives a copy of every publication produced by the state and catalogs all material. A good starting point for finding information produced by New York state. Search by author, title, keyword. EXAMPLE: New York State Archives (author search)
GLOCAT	In Milne Library's catalog, search by keyword and document type. EXAMPLE: crime and new york and dt gov*
WorldCat	If you have a title of a New York state document, you can also search WorldCat to see if other libraries have the document. New York government documents CAN be obtained through Information Delivery Services.