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Online, searchable versions of the U.S.C. are available from a variety of sources:, FDsys; Office of the Law Revision Counsel (House of Representatives), Cornell University Law School. The Electronic Version and the Cornell University Law School site are easy to navigate and browse.
STATUTES AT LARGE: US Docs Ref GS 4.111: and US Docs Ref AE 2.111:
Shelved consecutively. Drew library owns volumes from the 38th Congress onward (incomplete).
Statutes at Large are a record of all private laws and public laws, Concurrent Resolutions and Proclamations passed by Congress and signed by the President since 1789. (Private laws effect specific individuals, or groups of individuals.) Volumes are arranged chronologically and laws are identified with the Congress that passed them (or amended them). Each session of Congress (generally two) is assigned its own volume number for Statutes at Large. Each volume number is normally issued in multiple parts. Each part indicates sequential page numbers: Vol. 113, Part 3, pp. 1545-2183 covers laws, etc passed by the 106th Congress, 1st session. The Contents pages at the beginning of each part of every volume indicates which laws, etc. are contained within each bound issue, by reference to a page number. Statutes at Large provides a great deal of information about a particular law, including legislative history.
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LSA: List of CFR Sections Affected updates changes to Federal regulations. A record of affected sections appears in each volume of the current CFR. The LSA is also available online from GPO Access. Detailed information about Federal regulations that appear in the CFR, as well as updates to the annual CFR, appear in the Federal Register.
FEDERAL REGISTER: in US Docs microfiche cabinets under Federal Register
The Drew library owns microfiche from 1973 onward.
Federal agency rules, proposed rules, and notices as well as executive orders and other presidential documents are published in the Federal Register, issued daily Monday through Friday. Online versions of the Federal Register are available from FDsys Access from Volume 59 (1994. LexisNexis Academic has the full text of the FR from 1936 onward (Drew only, accessed from Resources by Title).unmigrated-wiki-markup
*Federal Register* citations appear as follows: *{_}41 FR 56,623-56,624 \ [Dec. 29, 1976\]_*. 41 indicates the volume, and 56,523-56,524 the page numbers, followed by the publication date.An excellent site for accessing and understanding Federal law and legislation is the Law Librarian's Society of Washington DC.