Government Documents: National Park Service, Department of the Interior

Come see a new display of government documents regarding the National Park Service located on the second floor of the Library!

The National Park Service, a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior, is a system of over 400 areas encompassing 84 million acres in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. These areas include national parks, monuments, battlefields, military parks, historical parks, historic sites, lakeshores, seashores, recreation areas, scenic rivers and trails, and the White House. (NPS, 2017)

Did you know that Maryland alone has 28 areas designated by the NPS? Even in our own back yard lies the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which begins in Cumberland, MD and terminates in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.

Each year, the National Park Service publishes documents through the Government Printing Office regarding these areas including books, guides, pamphlets, maps, and more. As a member of the Federal Depository Library Program, the Ort Library receives copies of these materials and adds them to our collection of Government Documents, to be made available to the public. National Park Service materials published by the Department of the Interior may be found on the second floor, in the Government Documents section, under the SuDoc class I. Other circulating government documents may be found on floors four and five. 

Non-print materials used in this display were loaned by the National Park Service, courtesy of Rita Knox, and NPS volunteer, Francis Zumbrun. Thank you!