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EMU Library celebrates 40th year as a federal depository

Interested in the government's official reports on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the 1947 Roswell incident, in which residents of that New Mexico town reported seeing UFOs? Think you might like to sneak a peek at CIA maps of the former Soviet Union after it broke into numerous republics? Or maybe you'd like to peruse presidential papers from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush.

For the past four decades, EMU's Library has served as a federal depository, housing countless government documents — like those mentioned and thousands more — for public use.

GOVERNMENT ON DISPLAY: These books
and periodicals are but some of the
government documents on display in Halle
Library through Oct. 16 to commemorate
the 40th anniversary of the EMU library's
designation as a federal depository.
Photo by Craig Watson

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of EMU Library's federal depository status, The Friends of the EMU Library has invited the general public to its fall meeting and program, which will feature "The Good, the Rare and the Strange: Treasures and Ephemera from EMU Library's 40 Years as a Depository of U.S. Government Publication," Sunday, Oct. 9, 2 p.m., in room 300 of Halle Library. The meeting and refreshments starts at 2 p.m. with the program to follow at 3 p.m.

Ann Sanders, Michigan's regional depository librarian, will entertain with tales of the amazing variety of treasures and ephemera that are provided to federal depository libraries by the Government Printing Office. Bob Ferrett, former director of EMU's Center for Instructional Computing, and Chris Mayda, professor of geography and geology, will discuss how access to information in the library's Government Documents Collection has been useful in their research and teaching.

In addition, the 40th anniversary will be commemorated with two displays in Halle Library's atrium, which are available for viewing through Oct. 16.