In-person Reference

Reference service is available at the Government Information & Maps reference desk on the Lower Level during Monday through Friday 9 am to 5 pm. For in-person service when the Government Information and Maps desk is closed, visit the Extended Hours Reference Desk on the second floor (government information librarians assist in staffing this desk). Also contact us by telephone at (530) 752-1624 during scheduled hours.

Student employees in the Lower Level assist users during evening and weekend hours to locate periodical issues and microform references, and in the use of microform readers and reader/printers. Students also retrieve and check-out materials from the Government Information Stacks during evening and weekend hours.

Electronic Reference and Consultations

Use our e-mail reference form to submit general reference questions to us. Or contact one of our government information or map selectors individually, as listed below. Government information and map librarians work closely with our colleagues in other UC libraries, the California State Library and the wider government information and map/gis community to acquire material for our local users.

Customized Instruction

Government information librarians and the Map librarians have developed a wide array of web pages and printed guides to assist users in locating government information, maps and gis resources. We are happy to adapt a guide or prepare a new one for a UC Davis class research assignment. We will also work with course instructors to design a library instructional session based on the specific topics students are exploring. Please contact Linda Kennedy, Head, Government Information & Maps Dept. (lmkennedy@ucdavis.edu; 530-752-1656), Kathy Stroud, Map/GIS Librarian (kpstroud@ucdavis.edu; 530-752-5248) or one of the other department librarians listed above for assistance with your class assignments or to develop an instructional session to be offered in your classroom or a library lab.

We also offer classes via the Library Instruction Services. Depending on the quarter, there are one-hour classes on Census data, Congressional and Legislative Information and News Resources, all of which are customizable for individual class presentations. The Library Instruction Services offers basic instruction on Library online catalogs and databases and the use of EndNote.

Circulation

Government documents circulate on the same basis and for the same loan periods as other material in the General Library. If you have a citation to a publication in the Government Information Stacks, please come to the Government Information & Maps Reference desk in the Lower Level to request it, for perusal or check out. This service is available during most library hours of service.

The Government Information Stacks are closed, but are opened for browsing on request. Other government documents are located in the Shields Library book stacks, the Physical Sciences and Engineering Library, and the Carlson Health Sciences Library and are checked out from their respective circulation desks. Please contact the Government Information and Maps Department if you have a citation to a government document that you can't locate in the catalogs.

Renew Books:

• Via the Web: Click on My Account/Renew Books here or from the Library Home page. Log in with your Library Card number and PIN to review and renew the books you have checked out.
• By telephone: Call us at 530-752-9788
• By e-mail: govcirc@ucdavis.edu