American Library Association, Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT)
- State and Local Documents Taskforce (SLDTF)"provides a forum for librarians and others working with, or interested in, state and local government information."
- State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States (GODORT) This link opens in a new windowIn every US State and the District of Columbia, agencies are creating databases of useful information - information on businesses, licensed professionals, plots of land, even dates of fish stocking. Some of this content is available on search engines, but much of it is part of the invisible web.
- State Blue Books & Encyclopedias (GODORT) This link opens in a new windowprovides links to State Blue Books, which usually describe the organizational structure of state government and provide basic facts about the state
Resources for All 50 States
- Book of the States (Council of State Governments)provides online access to the complete archive, 1935+
- State Constitutions
- State Legislative, Executive & Judicial Branches
- Elections
- State Finance
- Selected State Policies & Programs - Internet Access to Administrative Rules (NASS - National Association of Secretaries of State)provides links for each state which has electronic access to administrative rules, such as Florida Administrative Code or Florida Administrative Weekly.
- State & Local Government on the Net This link opens in a new window"provides convenient one-stop access to the websites of thousands of state agencies and city and county governments"
- WashLaw (Washburn University School of Law)provides links to many documents that relate to state and local government and legislative information, including state statutes & court cases
- State List (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)"provides links to state publication checklists and shipping lists that are currently available on the Internet from 37 states"
- Tapping State Government Information Sources"For each of the 50 states, important publications are detailed, along with information on how to obtain them. The publications' topics range from crime statistics to vital statistics, business statistics, health information, statistical abstracts, education directories, state budgets, economic indicators, state laws and legal information, and more."
- U.S. State & Regional Government (ipl2)provides descriptive links
- Leadership Directories (subscription cancelled)provide Yellow Book listings for state legislative committees & staff, state agency personnel, local cities & counties, federal & state courts, government affairs, foreign representatives, associations, nonprofits, financial institutions, corporations, news media, and law firms.
- e-SecretaryOfState.comprovides links for each U.S. state
