While the Missouri State University Libraries became a government document depository in 1963, we signed a further agreement in 2012. Under the terms of this agreement, MO State would become the library regionally responsible for specific government agency collections. In recent years, the Government Printing Office (GPO) has been implementing a new digital Federal Documents Library Program and the changes required the aforementioned agreement to also be changed. While the old agreement required that we receive some physical documents, those documents are no longer printed.

 

The regional responsibility does still require that MO State try to collect all documents from specific call number ranges, but the primary way of finding those is to monitor government document discarding by other libraries. MO State continues to do this through the FDLP eXchange and through email list monitoring where such discards are noted.

 

MO State librarians are glad to help you find government documents both online and in paper.