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The United States Congressional Serial Set is a serially numbered collection of United States Congress House and Senate Reports, Documents, and some related publications.

The Serial Set is shelved on the 3rd floor of Gleeson Library, along the south wall of the north wing.

The official call number (Superintendent of Documents number) for the Serial Set is Y 1.1/2. It is a compilation of documents from the following series:

Y 1.1/3 - Senate Documents

Y 1.1/4 - Senate Treaty Documents

Y 1.1/5 - Senate Reports

Y 1.1/6 - Senate Executive Reports

Y 1.1/7 - House Documents

Y 1.1/8 - House Reports

and other related publications

Publication of the set began in 1789 and continues today. Gleeson Library | Geschke Center has the set in paper format from volume 12559 in 1963 to volume 14393 in 1997. The Gleeson Library | Geschke Center Government Documents Federal Depository Collection continues to receive individual Reports and Documents (shelved next to the Serial Set, on the 3rd Floor). For recent years, these publications are also online via GPO ACCESS, THOMAS (Reports only), and LexisNexis Congressional. The Law Library has the Serial Set on microfiche from 1789 to the present. (Please note: the Law Library's microfiche collection is not part of the Federal Depository Library Program and therefore is not available for use by the general public.)

For a more detailed explanation of the Serial Set, see the following:

U.S. Congressional Serial Set: What it is and it's History (Virginia Saunders, Government Printing Office)

An Overview of U.S. Congressional Serial Set (Richard J. McKinney, Law Librarians' Society of Washington, DC, Inc.)

For the schedule of volumes of the Serial Set, see the following websites:

For the years 1817-1969: U.S. Congressional Serial Set Inventories from University of North Texas

For the years 1970-Present: Law Librarians' Society of Washington, DC - Schedule of Volumes to the U.S. Congressional Serial Set

The following is a list of indexes which are useful for finding specific topics within the Serial Set:

1789-1969
LexisNexis Congressional: Historical Indexes/Congressional Indexes
Internet access via library Databases Web page: http://www.usfca.edu/library/databases/congressional.html
(The Zief Law Library has the CIS U.S. Serial Set microfiche set for this time period. Look for the year and CIS accession number. Please note: the Law Library's microfiche collection is not part of the Federal Depository Library Program and therefore is not available for use by the general public.)

1970-Present
LexisNexis Congressional: CIS Index
Internet access via library Databases Web page: http://www.usfca.edu/library/databases/congressional.html
(The Zief Law Library has the CIS U.S. Serial Set microfiche set for this time period. Look for the year and CIS accession number. Please note: the Law Library's microfiche collection is not part of the Federal Depository Library Program and therefore is not available for use by the general public.)

1941-1980
Numerical Lists and Schedule of Volumes of the Reports and Documents of the ... Congress, ... Session
Documents Reference Z1223 .A2 1941/58
Documents Reference Z1223 .A2 1964/80

1981-82
Monthly Catalog of the United States Government Publications. United States Congressional Serial Set Supplement
Documents Reference Z1223 .A2 1981/82

1983-96
United States Congressional Serial Set Catalog
Documents Reference Z1223 .A2 1983-96

1995-Present
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Online (from GPO Access)
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/index.html

1976-Present
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
http://catalog.gpo.gov/

The University of Michigan is digitizing its Serial Set Collection. This is a work in progress. To access this collection, click here and then select "Online Links to Individual Volumes".