Government Depository

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This library is a Congressionally designated depository for U.S. Government documents. Public access to the government documents collection is guaranteed by public law. (Title 44 United States Code)

Murphy Library has been a Selective (approximately 50%) depository in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) since 1965.

Murphy Library has been a been a Selective depository in the Wisconsin Document Depository Program (WDDP) since 1974.

Murphy Library has been an Affiliate library in the State Data Center (SDC) Program since 1979.

As a government depository library, Murphy Library is committed to providing UW-L students, faculty, staff, and visitors with:

Unrestricted access to online public government information
Expertise in government information sources
Selections of links to key government e-resources
A collection of over 45,000 links to online government documents. These may be found and accessed through the Library Catalog.

A circulating collection of some 200,000 government documents. These are listed in the Library catalog.

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U.S. Government Printing Office: Working with Libraries

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