Geography of Cesar Department

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[MUSIC PLAYING] Did you know that you can find some of the most interesting and unusual federal, state, and local materials right here in the Government Document Service? The federal government has made more than 200 years worth of documents available to the public through the Federal Depository Library Program, which ASU Libraries has been a part of since 1944. Yet much of our collection goes much further back and has remained an uncatalogued, hidden treasure, until now. [MUSIC PLAYING] Welcome to ASU Libraries Hidden Treasuries. I'm Lindsay O'Neill, government document specialist here at Hayden Library. Here with me is government information librarian Dan Stanton. Hello. He's going to tell us a little bit about some of the more historic hidden treasures that we have here in front of us. Sure. There's a lot of history in Government Documents, and one of the more interesting ones is a series called the "War of the Rebellion." It's actually the official records of the Confederate and Union Armies, and it's a 128-volume set that was published between 1881 and 1901. It's just a great history of reports and remembrances of the war. And some additional volumes of that include some atlases of the battlefields, going out and showing positions of both armies. And then there's also an interesting 5-volume set about medicine and surgery during the Civil War. There's some drawings in there that are definitely not for the squeamish. In the early days of the Republic, we had explorations going out to different areas west of the Mississippi. And so those were all military expeditions, but they took specialists with them that would sketch things and do surveys. And so we have a number of exploratory expeditions from John Wesley Powell's first trip down through the Grand Canyon, Commodore Perry's first visit to the nation of Japan, when he opened up-- Is he the same one that went to the North Pole? That's a different Perry. Darn. Yeah. But we do have expedition to the North Pole as well. Speaking of historic materials, we also have a comprehensive Arizona State and Local Collection. Right here in front of us, we've got a volume of the Arizona Highways Magazine plus a couple of publications here. Can you tell us about this set right there? Sure. One of the more interesting Arizona State publications is, of course, Arizona Highways. And it was begun in the 1920s as a newsletter for the State Highway Department, and they also included a little bit of kind of travelogue stories. Our Arizona State and Local Collection contains a lot of similar information relating to Arizona Highways about historic and cultural things, like how the urban explosion of growth since the 1960s was balanced with preservation of historic and cultural resources, like, say, Pueblo Grande that's located by the Sky Harbor Airport. A lot of this is really useful information for maybe urban planning students or maybe for Native American researchers because we have a lot of that primary resource-type material that's useful to learn how these decisions were made. But something that a lot of people don't know about is that government-funded research is actually made available for free to people. So whatever the government pays for, it's generally made available to anyone for general consumption. Is that right? That's right. And because that is funded through tax dollars, that information is made available so that the trajectory of research can move forward. We have a number of technical reports. NASA, obviously, does a lot of research and development in aerospace area and things like that. These are actually only a tiny part of what we have to offer, right? That's right. We have a number of resources. We have resources in print. We have microforms. And currently we get a lot of electronic resources, a lot of information. And so that's why we recommend that folks come up and visit us or contact us. The collection is open any time the Hayden Library building is open. You can come Monday through Friday, 9:00 to 5:00 for expert assistance in helping you find government information that you may need. And we also provide reference assistance by email, by phone, and now we've also got a Twitter account as well. We're at @ASUGovDocs. So you can not only follow us on Twitter and see what neat things we have, but you can also contact us, and we'll do our best to help you. Thank you for joining us for another exciting episode of ASU Libraries Hidden Treasures. And we hope to see you in Government Documents soon. [MUSIC PLAYING]