The Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) system is the classification system EKU Libraries and the United States government use to identify and catalog government publications.
It was created over 90 years ago by the Government Printing Office (GPO) to essentially serve as the government's own system of call numbers
The Government Documents section is located on the 3rd floor of the Main Library
The format of a SuDoc number is as follows:
Department [Letter(s)] Agency # Series #
For example: NAS 1.26 indicates a NASA series, Contractor Reports. Or, I is for the Department of the Interior, 19 is for the U.S. Geological Survey and 42 is the number of the USGS series, Water Resources Investigations Report.
1. Periods, back slashes, and colons separate each section of a SuDoc Number. Documents are shelved alphabetically by the letters and then numerically, section by section.
C 1.1:
C 1.2:
C 1.24:
C 2.1:
2. All numbers are shelved as whole numbers, not decimals.
HE 20.40
HE 20.016:
HE 20.108:
3. Single letters are shelved before multiple letters. Multiple letters are shelved alphabetically, regardless of the number of letters.
L 2.3:
LC 4.7:
N 11.
NS 1.2: