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The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) is a federal program where government documents are stored, physically, in libraries located in every state. Unfortunately, the James Addison Jones Library here at Greensboro College is not such a library, but there are many in our state. There are two types of depository libraries. Regional depository libraries store all government publications received and provide service and support to selective depository libraries. States may have no more than two and a few states are served by a regional depository library in another state. Selective depository libraries only receive certain classes of documents that best serve their patrons. There can be no more than two of these in each Congressional district.
The regional depository library for North Carolina is Davis Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The selective depository libraries in our state include:
Government documents are not organized according to the Library of Congress system used in the James Addison Jones Library and most academic libraries. Neither are the organized according to the Dewey Decimal System. Instead, they use Superintendent of Documents Classification (SuDoc or SuDocs). A full discussion of this system can be found here. Each SuDocs number contains a letter corresponding to a department or agency, a number corresponding to a subordinate office within the department, a number corresponding with a series of documents, a letter corresponding to a type of resource, and, finally, a number for a specific document. The letters that correspond to the various government departments are:
