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Find Documents
- For most researchers, your best bet is to find documents using a database like ProQuest Congressional or HeinOnline. See the relevant page in this guide for links:
- If you're looking for a physical copy of a document, you can search Tripod to find a call number:
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Paper / Physical Documents
- Housed in Swarthmore's McCabe Library (Lower Level), Bryn Mawr's Canaday and Collier Libraries, and Haverford's Lutnick Library
- Organized on shelves based on which government agency/entity created the document. (This is called the Superintendent of Documents (SuDoc) classification, an alternative to Library of Congress or Dewey Decimal Classification.)
Pennsylvania Documents
- Swarthmore is a depository for Pennsylvania state documents. We no longer receive print copies of new materials, but existing documents are shelved on the Lower Level of McCabe Library in the government documents section according to the Pennsylvania Documents (Penn Docs) classification system.
- For help finding Pennsylvania documents, see the State page in this guide.
International Documents
- For most researchers, your best bet for finding UN documents is to search the UN's Official Document System (ODS) or the United Nations Digital Library. See the International page in this guide.
- Swarhmore has a collection of United Nations documents, British Parliamentary documents, and international governmental organization documents. These are shelved in the regular stacks of McCabe Library according to Library of Congress call numbers. Most of the physical documents in our collection date from before 2015.