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United States congressional serial set


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    • United States. Congress. United States congressional serial set
    • U.S. congressional serial set
    • Serial set
    • Congressional serial set
    • Congressional edition
    • Congressional set
    • Congressional series
    • Sheep set
    • Congressional series of United States public documents
    • Sheep bound set
    • Serial number set
    • Congressional document series
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    • found: House reports, nos. 526-563, 1990:t.p. (United States congressional serial set; serial number 13891) spine (13891; U.S. congressional serial set)
    • found: Schmeckebier, L.F. Government publications and their use, 1969:p. 161-162 (The serial number is a number applied to each book in the congressional series of publications, the numbers running consecutively beginning with the 15th Congress (1817). It has not been possible to apply it to the first 14 congresses (1789-1817), as the publications were not assembled in book form. ... The serial number should not be confused with the separate series numbers of the documents and the reports, which include the number of the congress and session as a part of the designation.... It is a continuing number regardless of congress or series.... The sets of congressional publications in the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and the Public Documents Library are arranged according to the serial numbers, and the numbers are stamped on the books, but the serial number may not appear on many of the volumes available in libraries outside of Washington.) p. 163 (The serial number is not suitable for citation, as the volumes represented by many numbers contain several publications with separate pagination.)
    • found: Morehead, J. Introduction to United States public documents, 1983:p. 163 (The Congressional Serial Set has been known variously as the serial number set, congressional edition, congressional set, congressional series, and sheep set (owing to its distinctive sheepskin binding).)
    • found: OCLC database, 4-28-92(Also called Congressional series of United States public documents, Sheep bound set, Serial number set, Congressional document series)
    • found: House document, no. 284, 2004:t.p. (United States congressional serial set; serial number 14772) spine (14772; U.S. congressional serial set)
  • Editorial Notes

    • [This authority record applies to the bound volumes, with serial numbers on the spines, meant to be kept together as a set. (At Library of Congress, the set is in the custody of the Law Library.) See n86-719707 for information concerning the handling of individual Senate and House publications being analyzed.]
    • [Title lacking prior to the 97th Congress.]
    • [The basic contents of the set are the separate series listed below (based on information in Schmeckebier and in Morehead). Note that various kinds of publications (e.g., House and Senate manuals, presidential messages, annual reports of some federal agencies, reports on audits, the Biographical directory of the American Congress, the Statistical abstract of the United States, annual reports of organizations such as the Girl Scouts of America) are published as House or Senate documents and thus can be found also in the serial set. Note that hearings are not included. 15th Congress: Senate journal, Senate documents, House journal, House documents. 16th-29th Congress: Senate journal, Senate documents, House journal, House documents, House reports. 30th-53rd Congress: Senate journal, Senate executive documents, Senate miscellaneous documents, Senate reports, House journal, House executive documents, House miscellaneous documents, House reports. 54th-57th Congress, 1st session: Senate journal, Senate documents, Senate reports, House journal, House documents, House reports. 57th Congress, 2nd session-82nd Congress: Senate journal, House journal, Senate reports, House reports, Senate documents, House documents. 83rd-95th Congress: Senate reports, House reports, Senate documents, House documents. 96th- Congress: House reports, Senate reports, House documents, Senate documents, Senate executive reports, Senate treaty documents.]
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    • 1992-05-04: new
    • 2011-05-24: revised
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