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Newly Received Federal Publications April – June 2017

Monday, August 14th, 2017 Posted in Articles, Federal and State Publications | Comments Off on Newly Received Federal Publications April – June 2017


The following publications were received during April – June 2017.
The titles included in this document represent the many valuable publications produced by the Government Publishing Office (GPO) and distributed to federal depository libraries through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The Washington State Library is the Regional Federal Depository Library for the states of Washington and Alaska.

History

Photograph of the Women Senators of the Wikimedia Commons

Women Senators of the 10th Congress. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. “Women in Congress.” US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives. Government Publishing Office, 2017. Online: http://history.house.gov/Exhibition-and-Publications/WIC/Women-in-Congress/.

Photograph of cannon overlooking Malvern Hill, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Virginia.

Photograph by Sarah Stierch. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Malvern Hill, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Virginia.

Hammond, John W. “Cultural Resources for Richmond National Battlefield Park.” National Parks Service. U.S. Department of the Interior, 2016. Available at the Washington State Library: Print: I 29.86/4:R 41/PT.2.
Online: https://www.nps.gov/stateoftheparks/rich/index.cfm.

Military

Department, Defense and Borden Institute. Pediatric Surgery and Medicine for Hostile Environments.  S.l.: U S Govt Printing Office, 2011. U.S. Army Medical Department. Borden Institute. Online: http://bit.ly/2osVC1v.

Parco, James E., and David A. Levy. Attitudes Aren’t Free: Thinking Deeply about Diversity in the US Armed Forces. Maxwell Air Force Base: Air UP, 2010. Available at the Washington State Library. Print: D 301.26/6:AT8. Online: http://www.af.mil/Portals/1/documents/diversity/attitudes-arent-free.pdf.

U.S. Army Center of Military History. The Surge, 2007-2008. N.p.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2017. Available at the Washington State Library. Print [pamphlet]: D 114.2:IR 1/3/SURGE.

“The Surge 2007-2008 is one of a series of commemorative pamphlets, the U.S. Army Center of Military History aims to provide soldiers and civilians with an overview of Operations Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn. They serve as an account of what the Army did in Iraq and a means of commemorating the hundreds of thousands of servicemen and women warriors who fought, and the thousands killed or wounded in one of the longest conflicts in American history.” (GPO)

United State. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2017. Online: http://bit.ly/2tw1Pbk.

Politics and Government

1903 picture of the Government Printing Office

1903 Government Printing Office

United States. Government Publishing Office. “Picturing the Big Shop: Photos of the U.S. Government Publishing Office, 1900-1980.” Government Publishing Office, 2017. Available at the Washington State Library. Print: GP 1.2:P 58. Online: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-PICTURINGBIGSHOP-2017/pdf/GPO-PICTURINGBIGSHOP-2017.pdf.

Recreation and Travel

Picture of a duck in the water

Secretive Sora. Photo credit: Sora – Kelly Colgan Azar. US Fish and Wildlife Service. Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge

National Park Service. Lewis and Clark Trail. N.p.: National Park Service, 2016. Available at the Washington State Library. Print [brochure]: I 29.88/3:L 58/2/2016.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge. N.p.: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 2016. Available at the Washington State Library. Print [brochure]: I 49.44/2:T 62/3/2016.

Science

Cover of Astronomical Almanac 2018The Astronomical Almanac is a joint publication of the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office, United States Naval Observatory (USNO), in the United States and Her Majesty’s Nautical Almanac Office (HMNAO), United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO), in the United Kingdom. This annual publication contains precise ephemerides of the Sun, Moon, planets, and satellites, data for eclipses and other astronomical phenomena for a given year, and serves as a world-wide standard for such information.” (GPO Book Talk)

The Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2018: And Its Companion the Astronomical Almanac Online. , 2017. Available at Washington State Library. Print: D 213.8: 2018. Online: http://asa.usno.navy.mil.

Rockman, Marcy, et. al. “Cultural Resources Climate Change Strategy.” National Parks Service. U.S. Department of the Interior, 2016. Available at the Washington State Library. Print: I 29.2:C 61/5. Online: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/climatechange/culturalresourcesstrategy.htm.

This list is provided to create awareness of the breadth and depth of the Washington State Library’s federal publications collection and to alert readers to specific titles available to them either online or in print (or other tangible mediums such as microfiche).