• A United States Government Documents Depository since 1907, the University of Maine Library has been a Regional (complete) Depository since 1963 -- the only such in Northern New England. Of the 1260 Federal Depository Libraries there are only 50 with this distinction. Also the Library is an official depository for Canadian federal government publications, making it one of only forty such depositories on US soil, and therefore also one of the very few binational depositories in the country.
• Over 2.3 million government publications comprise the collection, some even dating back to 1789.  Their formats include:  hardbound book, paperback, map, poster, microfiche, audio and videocassette, floppy disk, CD-ROM and DVD. As the century began, the US federal government gave a big push for transition to issuing nearly all new government publications in digital form. So 313,076 more are now accessible online via links in our online catalog URSUS. And even past websites of agencies are available at CyberCemetry.
• Major strengths of this collection include: aquaculture, census information and demographics, earth sciences, foreign relations, forestry, international commerce, marine studies,  political science,  water resources, and wildlife.

• Many are housed in the Department's Open Stacks, Microforms Areas, and Map Area, all on the first floor. The rest are in closed stacks or the Library Annex, but can be paged on demand from the Reference Desk. Almost all documents published after 1975 are cataloged in URSUS.

• Librarians in the Reference Department and the Science and Engineering Center provide assistance in identifying and locating U.S. government publications.

• Service hours are the same as the Reference Desk. Some documents are available in the self service government document stacks and microfiche cabinets whenever the building is open.

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