Kenyon's library is a congressionally designated depository for U.S. Government documents. Public access to the government documents collection is guaranteed by public law. (Title 44 United States Code)

Kenyon College has been a Federal Depository Library since 1873 and has a large collection of historical and current government documents. As a depository library, we provide free public access to government information in a variety of formats: in print, microfiche, and CD-ROM, as well as electronically. Kenyon also collaborates on a variety of government documents projects as part of the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium.

Use KSearch* to search for government documents, journals, CD-ROMs, electronic documents and more. *Limit to government documents by filtering the content type in the left side pane.

Most government publications are classified according to the Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) system and are located in the library storage facility. They can be requested to be brought up to Chalmers Library through the CONSORT system.