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Knowledge Paths
Federal Regulatory Research: Selected Agency Knowledge Paths
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Federal Regulatory Research:
Selected Agency
Knowledge Paths
Rachel W. Jones
Editor
Federal Regulatory Research: Selected Agency Knowledge Paths
has been co-published simultaneously as Legal Reference Services
Quarterly, Volume 22, Number 1 2003.
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Federal Regulatory Research:
Selected Agency Knowledge Paths
CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Rachel W lanes
The National Library of Education and Government Information 3
Ellen A. Sweet
Federal Environmental Administrative Law Pathfinder 19
Scott Larson
The Federal Reserve System: Information Sources
at the Nation's Central Bank 29
Richard l. McKinney
Federal Trade Commission Resources and Information 45
Stephanie l. Young
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office-Patent Information 53
Laura S. Hjerpe
Symbol of Confidence-The Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation: A Descriptive and Selective Bibliography 67
Deirdre Clarkin
Department of Justice: A Selective Compilation of Internet
Resources 73
Leslie A. Lee
Michelle M. Wll
Index 119
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Rachel W. Jones, MSLS, is Manager of Professional Education and
Training at Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP in Washington,
DC. For the last six years, she has been responsible for the administra
tion ofthe firm's professional development and training program for at
torneys and staff, which includes the firm's corporate university. She
has taught legal research courses for attorneys and non-attorney profes
sionals, and has held positions as reference librarian and manager of li
brary services for law firms and academic institutions. She is a member
of the American Association of Law Libraries, the International Society
for Performance Improvement and the Professional Development Con
sortium.
Introduction
It has been well over a year since the Law Librarians' Society of Washington,
DC agreed to compile sample pathfinders of federal agency research for a spe
cial issue of Legal Reference Services Quarterly. Law and special librarians in
the Washington, DC metropolitan area undoubtedly are tasked routinely, if not
daily, with accessing and navigating the labyrinth of federal agency laws, regu
lations, interpretative releases, memoranda, dockets, etc., etc.
These sample pathfinders or "knowledge paths" represent the input of gov
ernment, academic and private law firm librarians with a varied patron base
and institutional mission. This compilation of "knowledge paths" is as dy
namic as the agencies represented and the librarians that provide research
guidance. The diversity of style and content are equally unique and dynamic
and represent typical research needs of the constituencies served. Beginning
research and the consequent circuitous routes that legal research, and partiClI
larly regulatory research, travel are well represented herein.
Rachel W. Jones
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