Gordon B. Olson Library

govinfo (formerly FDsys)
Provides public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. To see a list of its collections, click here.

USA.gov
"The U.S. government's official web portal." A subject index to government information and services.

Congress.gov (formerly Thomas)
Is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. Provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. It is presented by the Library of Congress.

Core U.S. Government Resources
Provides information about the workings and essential activities of the U.S. Government.

Federal Government Agencies Directory
Find current agency Web sites from the list or do a keyword search.

U.S. Government Abbreviations and Acronyms -- GovSpeak
A guide to government acronyms & abbreviations.

TopoView (from USGS)
Maps included are from the USGS’s US Topo series and earlier Historical Topographic Map Collection (HTMC). These maps are modeled on the familiar 7.5-minute quadrangle maps of the period 1947-1992, but are mass-produced from national GIS databases on a repeating cycle. US Topo maps repackage geographic information system (GIS) data in traditional map form. Depending on location chosen to review, maps may have been produced very recently (e.g., 2019). Formats of maps include GeoPDF, GeoTIFF, JPEG, and KMZ.

Library of Congress Maps
A small collection of Library of Congress maps that are digitized and made available for viewing.

Selected Databases/Full-Text Resources
List of reference resources compiled by the MSU library staff.

Tax Forms (Federal)
Forms and instructions available to download.

National Jukebox (from the Library of Congress)
Makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. Includes recordings from collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries (including Minot State University's Gordon B. Olson Library) and archives. At launch, the Jukebox included more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925, and new content is added regularly.