BEST.TITLES.EVER.

Smart accessories for today’s working women [picture] : choosing the right accessories creates your personal style, so does choosing the right career, shop smart and enroll in a construction trades program today, Job Corps, 1990.

SuDoc Call No: L 37.2:AC 2

“It’s pink, so I know it’s for me!” - Alexis S.

The adventures of Splish and Splash : child-friendly interactive games to teach children about pool and spa safety, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 2016.

SuDoc Call No: Y 3.C 76/3:29/AD 9/DVD

They missed a real opportunity by not making this multi-user online

Submitted by @brandeislibrary

Game is downloadable from app stores.

Popcorn Handbook, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Product Development Branch, 1996

SuDoc Call No: A 62.15:P 81

Popcorn is fun, right?!  Sure, unless you let the Department of Agriculture write the handbook.

Alien seamen -insane aliens--statements on the various immigration problems. Hearings on H.R. 14273,l Jan 30 and Feb. 6, 1923.

SuDoc Call no: Y4.Im6/1:Al4/11

I don’t think these words mean what you think they mean.

Submitted by @jadelennox

Home fallout shelter : snack bar, basement location plan d, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1980.

SuDoc Call no: FEM 1.8/3:12-D

Because all fun time stuff should carry with it the fear of nuclear annihilation.

Find it In a Library

Continuing on the theme from last year’s Exoplanet travel poster project, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have released travel posters for destinations a little closer to home.

For more information on NASA and the JPL, and to see the full gallery and download your favorites, visit

[NOTE: this was originally posted on Free Government Information. See the full story there.]. In searching for a 1913 Department of Labor document called "Immigration Laws and Rules" (WorldCat record), I found this little gem of a quote on p.156 of the July 1913 – June 1914 MoCat volume (btw, Internet Archive has a long run of the Monthly Catalogue online!) which gave me the publishing history of the publication along with a public admonition IN 1913(!) that finding government documents is difficult:

  A QUESTION OF EDITIONS

Immigration laws, rules of Nov. 15, 1911, was issued in January, 1912. The same publication, with amendments, 2d edition, appeared in May, 1912. A 3d edition, with amended footnotes, was published in August, 1912. Another print of this last-named publication, with amendments, and designated as 2d edition, was issued under the printed date Mar. 10, 1913, and entered in the April Monthly catalogue. The same publication, without amendment, was reprinted later in May, 1913, as 4th edition. A fifth issue, dated Sept. 9, 1913, is called 1st edition. The reason for calling this a 1st edition instead of a 5th edition is stated to be that it is the first publication of the Immigration laws made by authority of the present Commissioner General of Immigration. This seems a natural enough reason, but when it comes to be considered it will be seen that it amounts to numbering the official instead of the publication.

President Wilson did not find it necessary to start a new set of numbers for his proclamations and Executive orders. He continued the same series that had been begun by Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. President Taft’s last proclamation is numbered 1236, President Wilson’s first, 1237. President Taft’s last Executive order is no. 1743, President Wilson’s first, 1744.

The various editions of the Immigration laws are sent, by requirement of law to nearly 500 official libraries, which must arrange the publications received in such order that they may be readily found when wanted. With two 1st editions, one published in 1912 and the other in 1913, and two 2d editions, showing the same discrepancy, with a 1st edition of a later date than the 4th edition, and a 2d edition following the 3d edition, it will be seen that the work of the librarian remote from Washington, and consequently from official explanation, is made needlessly hard and confusing.

Packet for the Bride, Agricultural Marketing Service, US Department of Agriculture, 1963

SuDoc Call No: A 12:B76/983

Folder includes pamphlets:

Food for the Young Couple - Menu Planning

US Grades of Beef

Sanitation in Home Laundering

Clothes Moths and Carpet Beetles: How to Combat Them

How to Buy Poultry by USDA Grades

A guide to USDA Services - A 49 page booklet on other publications of interest from the USDA

Shopper’s Guide to US Grades of Food

Because nobody knows more about what a new bride should know than the US Department of Agriculture.

El trastorno de pánico : existe, puede ser tratado, National Institutes of Health, 1997.

SuDoc Call No: HE 20.8102:P 19/4/SPAN

Porque cuando usted está teniendo un ataque de pánico , usted tiene el tiempo para detenerse y completar una lista de verificación.

Enviado por AnnK.

Esto es de la colección de brandeislibrary​

Style Manual & Writer’s Guide for Intelligence Publications, Director of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, US Department of Justice, 2011

Leaked Document, Original Published in 1989.

We could all learn a lot from the CIA on writing cleanly.  In particular: 

Keep the language crisp and pungent; prefer the forthright to the pompous and ornate.

Do not stray from the subject; omit the extraneous, no matter how brilliant it may seem or even be.

Favor the active voice and shUll streams of polysyllables and prepositional phrases.

Keep sentences and paragraphs short, and vary the structure of both.

Be frugal in the use of adjectives and adverbs; let nouns and verbs show their own power.

Make sure that subject and verb agree in number; do not be tricked by intervening words.

Be just as sure that every pronoun has a clearly identifiable antecedent and that the two agree in number and gender.

Be aware of your reading audience; reserve technical language for technical readers.

Be objective; write as a reporter or analyst or administrator unless you are entitled to write as a policymaker.

Chemical Handler’s Manual, Drug Enforcement Administration. US Department of Justice, 2002.

SuDoc Call No: J 24.8:C 42/2002

This thing is 62 pages long.  I know I would feel more comfortable if chemical handlers had more material to study.  Maybe I should write the DEA with my feedback.

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Hog Cholera Mop-Up in Dismal Swamp, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Office of Information, 1971

SuDoc Call No:  A 1.100:241

This sounds like an episode of Scooby Doo or the X-Files.  Crossover!

The Bachelor Military Tenant, American Forces Information Service, Department of Defense, 1978

SuDoc Call No: D 2.14:FS-64

Good information, terrible title.  How to rent off-base geared toward military personnel, sounds like bros hanging out in swinging bachelor pads.

Squeezed State and Uncertainty Relations, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1997.

SuDoc Call No: NAS 1.55:206855

Submitted by govpubsfinds

What are these ‘squeezed states’? I am definitely very uncertain. 

Counterterrorism Calendar 2015, National Counterterrorism Center, 2015.

SuDoc Call No: PREX 28.19/2-2:

This is a cheery subject for a calendar. Clearly we need to toss our or motivational calendars and Garfield Once-a-Days.

Submitted by MegB.

Find it in a Library

Full Text Available through the National Counterterrorism Center

Ecosystem Matters, Rocky Mountain Region, US Forest Service, US Department of Agriculture, 1995.

SuDoc Call No: A 13.36/2:EC 7/2

This works whether or not you use “matters” as a noun or a verb.  Also, there’s over 200 pages of random activities.

Submitted by MelanieR.