Librarians are available to help in several ways:
Many U.S. government documents are available online and are discoverable in the Library Catalog. Milne also houses physical documents which are also discoverable in the Library Catalog. Print documents are located in several collections in the library. Many are housed in the Milne Library U.S. Documents Collection in the sub-basement of the library. These documents are typically arranged by publishing agency, using the Superintendent of Documents classification system.
Selected documents are housed in the regular collection on the second and third floors and the reference collection in the sub-basement. Most of these documents may be checked out.
The library also has a collection of maps crated by the U.S. Geological Survey. Many of these maps are located in the map collection of the third floor of the library.
Print New York State documents are generally housed in the NYS Documents Collection in the sub-basement. Selected documents are housed in the regular collection on the second and third floors, and in the Reference Collection in the sub-basement. These can be located by searching the Library Catalog.
Online and print New York State documents may also be searched using the New York State Library's catalog, Excelsior. The New York State Library Digital Collections contains current and historic government documents. Government documents may be searched using New York State Library's discovery system.