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Tufts University

Visit the Tisch Library and it's Government Documents Collection

Institution Name: Tufts University
Institution Address: Tisch Library, Reference Services Department
33 Professors Row
Medford, MA 02155-5816
Telephone/Communications:
  • Voice:
    		• (617) 627-3460 (Reference)
    (617)627-2073 (Connie Reik)
  • Fax:
    		• (617) 627-3002
  • E-mail:
    		• tischref@tufts.edu (Reference)
    Connie.Reik@tufts.edu
  • Internet:
    		• http://www.library.tufts.edu/tisch
    Staff: Connie Reik, Reference Librarian/Government Publications Coordinator
    Federal Depository Status/Other Affiliations: U.S. Government Printing Office; MA State Data Center Program Affiliate
  • Designation year and type:
    		• Senate designation, 1899
  • Depository Library number:
    		• 0258
  • Congressional District:
    		• Seventh
  • Percentage selected:
    		• Selective, 42%
    Collections: Federal (ext); State (mod); International (ltd); Foreign (ltd); Local (ltd)
    Subject Specialties: Congress; demography and population; education; engineering; environmental sciences; health and vital statistics; medical sciences; political science; social sciences; USGS; Supreme Court. Visit Tufts government-related research tools.
    Acquires: ASI(non-depository microfiche); Census Bureau; Congressional Universe (restricted off-campus use; ERIC (restricted use); Envirofiche; Statistical Universe (restricted off-campus use); STAT-USA (restricted off-campus use); USGS maps
    Automation:
  • CD-ROM:
    		• EPA; USGS; State Water-Data Reports; various Federal Depository CD-ROMs.
  • Online Catalog:
    		• Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (III)
  • Web Databases: (on-site use only for licensed services)
    		• GPO Access; LexisNexis Academic; LexisNexis Congressional (inc. Congressional Indexes 1789-1969); LexisNexis Statistical; STAT-USA; Readex American State Papers; Readex U.S. Congressional Serial Set
    Equipment:
  • CD-ROM Terminals:
    		• 1 stand alone PC workstation with CD-ROM drive
  • Microform Readers, Reader/Printers:
    		• Reader/printers
    Notes: Public access; no fee, $.10 per page for copying and printing; collection circulates (must have current borrower status); document delivery. Some government documents are located in the Edwin Ginn Library, Medford Campus (617-627-5021) and the Health Sciences Library, Arthur M. Sackler Center for Health Communications, Boston Campus
    (617-636-6705)
    Public transportation:
  • Medford Campus:
    		• From Red Line Davis Square Station, take the Medford Square MBTA Bus (#94 or #96) to intersection of College Avenue and Professors Row; or from Green Line Lechmere Station take the Arlington Center MBTA Bus (#80) to intersection of College Avenue and Professors Row.
  • Boston Campus:
    		• From MBTA stations Boyleston (Green Line); New England Medical Center (Orange Line); or Downtown Crossing (Red Line/Orange Line), walk to Chinatown; from Kneeland Street proceed south on Harrison Avenue past St. James Church to the Sackler Center (4th floor)
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