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EXECUTIVE BRANCH

Executive Branch consists of:

• President of the United States
• Executive Office of the President
• Vice President
• Executive Agencies (departments, like Agriculture, etc.).

The Vice President

Executive Office of the President, from the White House. http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/eop.html

• Council of Economic Advisors
• Council on Environmental Quality
• Domestic Policy Council
• National Economic Council
• National Security Council
• Office of Administration
• Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
• Office of Homeland Security
• Office of Management and Budget
• Office of National AIDS Policy
• Office of National Drug Control Policy
• Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Office of the United States Trade Representative
• President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board
• President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
• USA Freedom Corps
• White House Military Office

A selection of major resources on the Presidency

1. American Presidents: Year by Year, Sharp Reference, 2004. Davis Reference, E176.N44/2004. 3 volumes.
2. Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the Presidency. Davis Reference JK516.C57 1996, 2 vols.
3. Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, Simon & Schuster, 1994. Davis and UL Reference: JK511 .E53 1994 .
   
4. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. Government Printing Office. Davis Reference: J80 .A283. Includes papers for Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. This set includes cumulative indexes to papers of each president.
   
5. Richardson, James D., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896-99. George Washington through Grover Cleveland. 10 vols, with index.
   This title is also available on the Nineteenth Century Masterfile. UNC Library,
   "Access to Databases" page.
   
6. The Presidential Papers. (CD-ROM), CDex Information Group, 1995. Includes messages/papers of the presidents, Washington through Taft plus the public papers of the presidents, Hoover through the early years of the Clinton administration. Davis Reference, Electronic Reference section.
7. Popular Names of U.S. Government Reports. 4th ed. 1984, Library of Congress, Davis Reference Desk LC6.2:G74/984.

Presidential Powers

• Appointing officials: The Plum Book , http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plumbook/
• Executive Orders and Proclamations., http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/disposition.html
  CIS Index to Presidential Executive Orders & Proclamations. Congressional Information Service, 1986-
  Davis Reference Wall Shelf 16.
  
• Treaties.
  Sources for Treaty Texts
  
  • U.S Statutes at Large.GPO. Davis Reference, KF50 .A3.
    
  • Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS). JX235.9 .A32
    
  • United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST). GPO. 1950- Davis Reference, JX231.A34.
    
  • Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America. Charles I Bevans, comp. (Referred to as BEVANS) 1968-1976. JX236.1968.A5.
  Electronic resources
  Treaty Actions, , from the Dept of State Foreign Affairs Network. 1994-1999. http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/law.html#treatyactions

  Treaties in Force, a List of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States,
  in Force on January 1, [year]. (Annual) http://www.state.gov/s/l/treaties/c15824.htm
  In paper: S9.14:[year].
  

  Researching U.S. Treaties and Agreements, Marci Hoffman, UC Berkeley Law Library.
  http://www.llrx.com/features/ustreaty.htm

Executive Privilege

Presidential Libraries, from the National Archives. http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/visit/

Internet Resources

• The Executive Branch, from the Documents Section Home Page.
  
• The White House.
• Federal Register, includes Executive Orders from 1995-present. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html
• Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/wcomp/index.html
• Public Papers of the President of the U.S.. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/search.html.

The President's Cabinet, from the White House. http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html

Full-Text Collections of Publications.

• U.S. Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1909: Guide to Documents Listed in Checklist of U.S. Public Documents, 1789-1909, Not Printed in the U.S. Serial Set. Congressional Information Service. 1990. Includes a microfiche collection of the documents.
• U.S. Executive Branch Documents, 1910-1932, Not Printed in the U.S. Serial Set. Congressional Information Service. 1996. Includes a microfiche collection of the documents.

Guides

• Kurian, George T. A Historical Guide to the U.S. Government, Oxford University Press, 1998. Davis and Law Reference: JK9 .H57 1998. Includes overviews of Executive Branch departments.
• Patrick, John J. The Oxford guide to the United States government Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Davis Reference, JK9 .P384 2001.
• U.S. Government Manual, http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html. Online, 1995/96-present. Print: 1935-present, AE2.108/2.

Executive Departments

1. Agriculture Department, 1862.
   Correspondence Courses, from the USDA Graduate School.

2. Commerce Department, 1903.
   

3. Defense Department, 1789. Originally called War Department, renamed Defense in 1947.
   

4. Education Department, 1979.
   

5. Energy Department, 1977.
   

6. Health and Human Services, 1953.
   

7. Housing and Urban Development, 1965.
   

8. Interior Department, 1849.

9. Justice Department, 1789- Attorney General, renamed Justice 1870.
   

10. Labor Department, 1913.
    

11. State Department, 1789.
    Department of State Foreign Affairs Network (DOSFAN), a cooperative venture
    with the University of Illinois at Chicago.
    

12. Transportation Department, 1966.
    

13. Treasury Department, 1789.
    

14. Veteran's Affairs, 1989.
    

List from the Documents Section Home Page. http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/govinfo/federal.html#10

Overview

Principal Statistical Agencies, from FedStats. http://www.fedstats.gov/agencies/agencies.html

Reference work with statistics

GUIDEBOOKS

1. Strauss's Handbook of Business Information : a Guide for Librarians, Students, and Researchers, Rita W. Moss. Davis Reference Desk HF1010 .M677 2004.
2. Dictionary of U.S. Government Statistical Terms. Alfred N. Garwood. Davis Reference Desk HA17.D538 1991.
   
3. Black Book of Economic Information: A Guide to Sources and Interpretation. David B. Johnson. David Reference Desk HC106.J636 1996.
   
4. Major U.S. Statistical Series: Definitions, Publications, Limitations. Jean C. Stratford and Juri Stratford. Davis Reference Desk HA37.U55S77 1992.
   
5. Using Government Information Sources: Electronic and Print. Jean L. Sears and Marilyn K. Moody. 3rd edition, 2001. Davis Reference Desk Z1223.Z7 S4 2001.

INDEXES

American Statistics Index Davis Reference, Row 19, 1973-present.
Online, part of Lexis/Nexis Statistical, from Lexis/Nexis, Congressional Information Service. Available from the UNC-CH Library Homepage, Article Databases.

COMPENDIA

1. Statistical Abstract of the United States. Annual. Reference Desk HA202.A2; earlier years in Bay 11. From 1995-present available online http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-02.html, from the Census Bureau.
   
2. Historical Statistics of the United States Colonial Times to 1970. Bureau of the Census, 1975. Davis Reference Desk HA202.B87 1975.
   
3. Datapedia of the United States: America Year by Year 1790-2000 George T. Kurian. Bernan Press, 1994. Davis Reference Desk HA202.K875 1994 c.2.
   

Glossaries of terms:

• Census Glossary, http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/glossary/glossary_a.html.
• Glossary of Budgetary and Economic Terms, from the Congressional Budget Office. http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=3280&sequence=0
• An Outline of the U.S. Economy, from the Department of State, International Information Programs. Includes a glossary of terms. http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oecon/

Selected statistical publications, by topic.

• Agriculture:
  • National Agricultural Statistics Service, http://www.usda.gov/nass/pubs/pubs.htm.
  • USDA Economics and Statistics System, http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/.

• Business and Industry:
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis, http://www.bea.doc.gov/
  • State and Metropolitan Area Data Book,, http://www.census.gov/prod/3/98pubs/smadb-97.pdf

• Census: Covered below, in a separate section.

• Consumer Expenditures:
  • National Income and Product Accounts of the United States,
    http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn/nipaweb/index.asp
  • Consumer Expenditure Survey, http://www.bls.gov/cex/home.htm

• Crime and Criminal Justice
  • Bureau of Justice Statistics, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
  • Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/
  • Uniform Crime Reports for the United States: Crime in the United States , http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
  • Terrorism in the United States, http://www.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terroris.htm
  • Patterns of Global Terrorism, http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/

• Defense and Military:
  • Defense Almanac, http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/almanac/
  • World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers, http://www.state.gov/t/vc/rls/rpt/wmeat/

• Education:
  • Condition of Education,, http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/
  • Digest of Education Statistics http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/

• Employment and Labor:
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov/
  • Employment and Earnings,
  • Monthly Labor Review, http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/welcome.htm.

• Energy:
  • Energy Information Administration, http://www.eia.doe.gov/
  • Annual Energy Review, http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/contents.html

• Environment:
  • Global Change Data, http://globalchange.gov/

• Health and Vital Statistics:
  • National Center for Health Statistics, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
  • Health, United States,, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm.
  • Mental Health, United States,
    http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/SMA04-3938/default.asp
  • Vital Statistics of the United States,, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/vsus/vsus.htm

• Population: We'll cover in the Census section.

• Prices:
  • Economic Indicators, http://www.gpoaccess.gov/indicators/index.html.
  • Consumer Price Indexes, http://www.bls.gov/cpi/home.htm

• Transportation:
  
  • Bureau of Transportation Statistics, http://www.bts.gov/
    
  • National Transportation Statistics, http://www.bts.gov/publications/nts/index.html

PRINT STATISTICAL SOURCES FROM COMMERCIAL PUBLISHERS
Bernan Publications has re-packaged and added value to government statistical publications, sometimes
combining information from several publications and internet sites.

• Business Statistics of the United States, 1995- Bernan Publishers. Davis Reference Desk (latest) HC101 .A131222.
• Education Statistics of the United States,1999- Bernan Publishers. Davis Reference Desk (latest) LA201 .E38.
• Foreign Trade of the United States. 1999- Bernan Publishers. Davis Reference Desk (latest) HF1416.5 .F68 2001.
• Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics, 1997- Bernan Publishers. Davis Reference Desk (latest) HD8051.A63.
• Housing Statistics of the United States, 1997- Bernan Publishers. Davis Reference Desk (latest) HD7293.H7822.

INTERNET

• FEDSTATS, links to statistical data from 100 federal statistical agencies. http://www.fedstats.gov/
  
• STAT-USA Internet, Some data is free but this is basically a subcription service; available from the UNC-CH Library Homepage, Electronic Indexes and Databases section. http://www.stat-usa.gov/
  
• FRED II: Federal Reserve Economic Data, http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred/.
• GPO Access, http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html.
  Includes Economic Indicators (1995-),and Economic Report of the President (1996-).
• Statistics, http://www.library.okstate.edu/govdocs/browsetopics/statisti.html, a Browse Topic from the Government Printing Office.