1	Government Documents as easy as F D L Free Information Dedicated Staff Limitless Possibilities
2	Federal Depository Libraries Schoolcraft College Bradner Library is one of 44 Federal Depository Libraries in Michigan and one of 1,250 Depositories in the country.
3	Our Collection is largely a current 5-year collection rather than an historical collection supports our curriculum supports our Congressional District demographic is geared toward research information and consumer education
4	The Depository Concept As a Federal Depository Library, we select between 22% and 24% of everything published by the Government Printing Office in Washington, DC. These documents are on loan to us for a minimum of five years, and we are mandated to make them available to our patrons. After housing the documents for five years, we may opt to keep them in our collection longer or offer them back to the government through our Regional Depository Library in Lansing. Because these documents are the property of the U.S. Government, they cannot be checked out of the library unless they are cataloged in the general collection.
5	United States Code of Federal Regulations Agencies are required by 44 U.S.C. Sections 1901, 1902, and 1903 and now OMB Circular A-130 to make all of their publications available for distribution to depository libraries, except those: which have no public interest or educational value [data entry forms, personnel forms, etc.] are classified for reasons of national security and cooperative publications which must necessarily be sold in order to be self-sustaining.
6	Bradner Library offers both tangible and electronic documents
7	Tangible Documents Among our 8,600 tangible documents, almost 1,300 are cataloged as books, over 700 are maps, 560 are microfiche, and 1,026 are housed at our Off-site Selective Housing facility, the Madonna University Library. Madonna maintains our collections of Michigan topographic maps IRS Bulletins Foreign Relations of the United States volumes and the State Departments Treaties and Other International Acts Series of documents.
8	Selection of Tangible documents
9	Selection of Electronic documents
10	How to search for our electronic documents
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17	Use the Government Printing Office Catalog of Government Publications to locate all published Government information. http://catalog.gpo.gov/
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