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LIS 525: State Government Sources

 

General Sources

State and Local Government on the Net
http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
 
State Government (GovSpot)
http://www.govspot.com/state/
 
Meta-Indexes for State and Local Government Information (Library of Congress)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/state/stategov.html
 
State Government and Politics (University of Michigan Government Documents Library)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/state.html
 
StateList: An Electronic Source for State Publications Lists (UIUC Library)
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/doc/StateList/check/check.htm
 
State and Local Documents Task Force (ALA GODORT)
http://www.library.arizona.edu/users/arawan/stat.html
 
Council of State Governments
http://www.csg.org/csg/default
 
Carroll's State Directory (353.9025ST291, behind GovDocs reference desk)
 
Council of State Governments, The Book of the States (353.9B644 in GovDocs Library)
 
Smith, Lori et al., Tapping State Government Information Sources (015.73053T168 in LIS Library--noncirculating)

 

Legal, Legislative and Regulatory Sources

Lexis Nexis State Capitol
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/proxy/go.asp?url=http://web.lexis-nexis.com/stcapuniv
 
Constitutions, Statutes and Codes (Cornell Law School)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/statutes.html
 
National Conference of State Legislatures
http://www.ncsl.org
 
Administrative Codes on the Internet (National Association of Secretaries of State)
http://www.nass.org/acr/internet.html
 
National Center for State Courts
http://www.ncsconline.org/
 
Lieter, Richard J., ed., National Survey of State Laws, 2nd ed., 1997 (Q.349.73N2131997, GovDocs Library)
 
Manz, William H., Guide to State Legislative and Administrative Materials, 2000 ed. (Q.348.731G9412000, GovDocs Library)
 
Foster, Lynn and Carol Boast, Subject Compilations of State Laws: Research Guide and Annotated Bibliography, 1981 (340.072073F814s in GovDocs Library; later editions in Law Library)

 

Statistical Sources

Guide to State Statistical Abstracts (U.S. Census Bureau)
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/stateabs.html
 
Statistical Reference Index (016.3173 St2, GovDocs Index shelves; also part of LexisNexis Statistical)
 
Hovey, Kendra and Harold A. Hovey, CQ's State Fact Finder (Washington DC: CQ Press) (317.3C839 in GovDocs Library)

Morgan, Kathleen O'Leary and Scott Morgan, State Rankings 1999 (Lawrence, Kansas: Morgan Quitno) (317.3Un3211999 in GovDocs Library)

Depository Library Programs Lane, Margaret T., State Publications and Depository Libraries: A Reference Handbook (Westport, CT: Greenwood), 1981. (027.50973L242s in GovDocs Library)

State Document Depository Laws and Law Web Sites
http://www.selu.edu/library/directory/govdoc/statedeplaws.pdf

see also StateList, linked above