Federal Documents Depository Program
The Library of Virginia is a congressionally designated selective depository library for federal government publications serving the 3rd Congressional District of Virginia and the Richmond metropolitan area. The current Federal Documents Depository Program was established in 1897, however, the Library of Virginia's collection of federal publications pre-dates the program by nearly 100 years. Through the Federal Documents Depository Program, the library selects approximately half of all materials published by the federal government for addition to the collection.
Collection highlights include:
- Legislative publications, including congressional hearings
- Dept. of Commerce, including Bureau of the Census
- Dept. of Defense historical publications
- Dept. of Health and Human Services
- Dept. of the Interior
- Library of Congress
- Smithsonian Institution
- Old War Department materials
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Explore finding aids for Government Information from GPO Access
Federal documents in our collection published since 1990 can be located through the library's Books, Journals… Catalog. Congressional hearings in our collection published since 1976 can be accessed through the online catalog as well. Many other federal documents about Virginia regardless of publication date can be found in the catalog. The Library of Virginia is beginning an extensive retrospective cataloging project to bring nearly 650,000 federal documents into the online catalog.