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Out-of-State Sources
Directories and indexes of state information as well as state home pages
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Access our catalog here with the following suggested subject keywords:
- County government
- Local government
- Municipal government
- State governments
When searching our catalog for NewJersey-related materials, use the New Jersey subject keyword index.
II. Helpful Print Resources:
Book of the States, 1935-, Chicago, IL: Council of State Governments, 1935-.
Call # R353.9 B724 Reference, Level 3
Carroll’s State Directory: executive, legislative, judicial, Washington, DC: Carroll Pub. Co. (current year)
Call # R353.932 S797 Reference, Level 3
CQ’s State Fact Finder 2001, Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, Inc, 2001.
Call # R317.305 C882 Reference, Level 3
Facts and Figures on Government Finance, 1948-, New York, NY: Tax Foundation, 1948-.
Call # R336 T235 Reference, Level 3
State Elective Officials and the Legislatures, 1989-, Lexington, KY: Council of State Governments, 1989-.
Call # R353.932 C855 Reference, Level 3
State Government News, 1980-, Lexington, KY: Council of State Governments, 1980-.
Call # Per S Periodicals – Level 2
III. Electronic Databases
Access our databases by subject listing and title listing.
- LexisNexis State Capitol
- Search for legislation, regulations, state legislatures, and issues in the news. Includes newspapers of record for various states.
- LexisNexis Statistical Insight
- Includes statistical resources from "Statistical Reference Index." These are both state publications and publications about state affairs.
IV. Web sites
Directories
- The Council of State Governments
- Provides access to their publications and services. Includes links to state home pages and election results.
- EconData.Net
- Guide to regional economic activity on the Web. Links to over 400 socioeconomic data sources arranged by subject and provider. Includes acccess tools to multiple data series, statistical compendia, search engines, regional analyses, socioeconomic forecasts, and mapping resources and more.
- USA.gov
- Links to state and territorial home pages; also provides subject access to services and information.
- NACo
- The National Association of Counties.
- New Federalism, Assessing the
- Research project from the Urban Institute including reports and statistics analyzing the devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states, focusing primarily on health care, income security, job training, and social services.
- Northeast Midwest Institute
- Good compendia site providing selected economic statistics, policy studies and links to other federal and state sources within their region.
- State and Local Government on the Net
- Piper Resources guide to state, county, city and government sites as well as government associations. Each cover page indexes several web sites for that government. Includes key word searching.
- State and Local Governments
- Library of Congress site including meta-indexes for state and local government information.
- State Data Centers
- Census Bureau sponsored consortium of agencies from 50 states providing Census Bureau and state statistical data.
Selected State Home Pages
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