Materials in the Card Catalog: Total monographs: 150,000
Total serial records: 26,000
Total other media: 5,000
Total records in the Card Catalog: 181,000
Materials in the Online Catalog: Total monographs: 42,600
Total serials: 9,322
Total other formats: 56
Total electronic access: 250
Total titles in Online catalog: 96,824
Features of the Main Collection
Over 38,000 cataloged titles, of publications related to labor
movement, labor supply, child labor, women employment, wages and hours in
industries, industrial health and safety, safety standards.
Bureau of Labor Statistics bulletins and reports since 1895 to
present.
Over 30,000 volumes of legal materials are in the collection related
to federal labor laws including related fields such as immigration, bankruptcy
and trust law.
Over 125 different titles in the collection of administrative
decisions by various labor organizations both inside and outside the
DOL,usually referred to by acronym. Some in this collection include
ARB,
BRB,
ALJ, and
WH.
Congressional Information Services complete Congressional
publications, which includes committee prints, hearings, reports and executive
documents from 1984 to present.
Over 850 titles of historical old and significance of labor-related
oversize newspapers.
Over 240 original OCLC records.
Over 2500 items in this special collection, primarily of trade union
serials, both domestics & foreign which date back, in some cases to the
early 1890's.
Wide variety of items including newspapers, periodicals and
statistical summaries which described the labor movement in the country &
abroad.
Due to the fragile condition and importance of the material in this
collection, it is housed separately from the Main Library and is available to
researchers by appointment only.