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Building Collections

This page is about the using the Basic Collection, Core Collection and Essential Titles List to help identify suitable or in-scope publications for your library's collection. It also covers how to identify and use commercial databases that are provided to the FDLP for free.

# Article Title Hits
1 Basic Collection 46379
2 Essential Titles for Public Use in Paper or Other Tangible Format 23611
3 Linking to Federal Resources Using Persistent Uniform Resource Locators (PURLs) 9742
4 Accessing Federal Information Using MetaLib's Federated Search 5242
5 Passworded Databases 13576
6 Suggested Core Collections 7712