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Government and Laws | Maps and GIS | Data Use
Tutorials
- The "Agency Approach" To Locating Government Information on the Internet
How to identify relevant agencies, locate their web sites, and mine those sites for needed information. Sponsored by the Continuing Education Fund Working Group of the Education Committee of the American Library Association's Government Documents Round Table.
- Legislative Research: A Web-Based Bibliographic Instruction Program
The goal of this service to provide users with the same information they would get in a class given by documents librarians. Maintained by the Documents Center at the University of Michigan.
- Legislative History of a New York State Law
Guide to compiling legislative histories of New York State laws. Summarizes appropriate reference sources and materials.
- Learning SuDocs Call Numbers
This tutorial covers the SuDoc (Superintendent of Documents) classification system. It provides an overview, highlights important things to remember, and offers an interactive quiz with multiple choice and true/false questions.
- Test your Geography Knowledge
Includes quizzes for Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, South America, United States, World (Continents and Oceans), Middle East, Central America, Caribbean, and Australia.
- What is GIS?
A guide to Geographic Information Systems, from ESRI.
- What is GIS?
Provides many useful images to illustrate how GIS works and how it is used, from USGS.
