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Government Information Collection
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Wilson Library, Haggard 2
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Depository for U.S. federal, Washington state, and Canadian federal documents.
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500,000 paper, fiche and electronic government publications.
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Most post-1976 government publications are in the catalog
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Most government publications may be checked out.
General Sources for Law Information
- Westlaw Campus Research
• Dates covered: 1789-
West Law Campus Research provides the fulltext to West's legal reporters that include all federal and state case law (Courts of Appeals and higher), statutes and regulations for all 50 states, Code of Federal Regulations, The Federal Register, administrative rulings, and legal coverage of the European Union. Included are over 700 law revews and journals, American Jurisprudence 2nd, and American Law Reports. The business collection includes Hoover's Company Records, SEC reports, and trade journals. Includes news and information databases, newspapers, newsletters, trade journals, newswires, and broadcast transcripts.
- FindLaw / FindLaw
FindLaw is a Web site that provides access to free legal information, sources and services. The Legal information includes legal search tools, case law (including U.S. Supreme Court decisions back to 1893 and California Supreme Court and Appellate Court decisions back to 1934), legal news, a directory of legal professionals, court forms, real-time SEC filings, community discussion areas and online continuing legal education.
- HeinOnline
HeinOnline is a legal research collection that features full-text searching of the complete historical run of scholarly legal and criminal justice periodicals. Other sources covered in full-text include published and unpublished treaties; The Federal Register (1936-present), U.S. Supreme Court Reports, and U.S. Attorney General Opinions. The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations CFR)is available full-text from inception in 1938 through the 1983 edition. Site License.
- LexisONE / Lexis Nexis
This free Internet service provides federal and state appellate cases from 1996-current, a collection of legal forms, and an annotated legal guide with links to websites.
U.S. Federal Law
- Statutes at Large
• Location: Haggard 2 - Gov. Inf. Ref. AE 2.111:
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The laws of the U.S. federal government, arranged chronogically. Pre-1964 volumes are in the Government Information microfiche under GS 4.111: The 1789-1875 volumes are online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsllink.html
- Thomas
Thomas is the Library of Congress's guide to Congressional activities. It contains the text and status of bills and laws, in some cases back to the 1970s. It also has the text of the Congressional Record back to 1989. It has information on Congressional committees back to 1995.
- United States Code Annotated / West Pub. Co
• Location: Haggard 2 - Gov. Inf. Ref.
Y 4.J 89/1:Un 3/3/West/
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The current federal laws of the United States, arranged by subject. The West Corporation has added annotations about history and court cases to the official publication.
- Federal register
Published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.
- Regulations.gov
An official website for commenting on proposed federal regulations.
- Federal Court Locator
Villanova University created this website which allows you to find information about any federal court, and to access their legal decisions if they are available to the public online.
- Historic Supreme Court Decisions
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference KF 4549 .S423 1996
Supreme Court cases are searchable by topic, popular title, Supreme Court Justice decisions, and by time period. Traces cases cited in each decision. Available on individual computers within the library.
- Oyez
A website featuring audio recordings of arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Washington Law
- Laws of Washington
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Haggard 2 - Gov. Inf. Ref. Docs Wa 340 W279
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The laws of Washigton state in chronological order. Warning: these laws appear as the read when passed. To see how they read now use the Revised Code of Washington.
- Washington Courts
The home page of the Washington courts system. Includes opinions, forms, rules, directory, etc.
- Washington Digest
• Location: Haggard 2 - Gov. Inf. Ref. Docs WA 347.9 Su7w-d2
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A subject index to points of law decided by Washington state court cases.
- Washington Reporter / West
• Location: Haggard 2-Gov Inf Ref Docs Wa 347.9 Su7w-r
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The opinions of all Washington state court cases at the appelate level or above.
Local Governments
- City of Bellingham
Website for the City of Bellingham. It contains information on development and provides links to local business information.
- Port of Bellingham
Offical website of the Port of Bellingham. This port plays an important role in the economic and transportation development of the Bellingham area.
Other Useful Information
- Summit
Summit is the combined library catalog of Pacific Northwest academic libraries. Use Summit to locate and request materials like books and videos which are not available from Western Libraries. To access Summit, search our library catalog first, then choose the option to “Repeat search in Summit”. To learn more, go to the Summit information page.
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