The staff of the Technical Services department recently completed the cataloging and processing of a collection of more than 1,000 volumes of government documents. This collection was acquired over a period of several decades through the Library's participation in the United States Depository Program, but it had not been cataloged and organized for easy access until this project was completed.

Included in this collection are a great many transcripts of hearings conducted before the House and Senate judiciary committees. A simple search in the online catalog (WebCat) using the words judiciary committee retrieves over 700 works, illustrating the diverse topics that have been the subject of hearings (e.g., civil rights, world refugee problems, criminal code revision, U.S. immigration policy, electronic surveillance). Adding an additional word to your search terms, such as immigration, or bankruptcy, narrows the list of retrievals to the particular topic. Searches under the names of individuals (presidents, judges, and other dignitaries) will also reveal the richness of our source materials received on depository.

The collection of judiciary committee hearings is chiefly from the decades of the 1960s through the 1980s. A broader scope of government documents is still received as part of our participation in the depository program. The Library has an even larger collection of such materials on microfiche. Microfiche and electronic format are now the formats preferred by the U.S. Government for issuance of its documents.