Government Sources by Subject: Videos and Tutorials

Learn how to use Social Explorer to retrieve and download data tables from the American Community Survey for poverty rates by race by age

Learn how to find the Social Explorer demographic data resource through the UW libraries website.

Learn how to use Social Explorer to find data from different census tracts in a city.

Learn to find congressional hearings using Proquest Congressional and the UW libraries catalog in this 3 minute video. This older interface predates our purchase of digitized hearings for the pre-1980 period, but some of the techniques are still useful.

Learn to find information about home loans by census tract using Aggregate Reports compiled by the FFIEC in this 2 minute video.

C-SPAN is a non-profit public television service created in 1979 to provide access to the live proceedings of the House and the Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated and decided. Coverage of congressional debates goes back to 1998, however "programs" of older historical events stretch back to the early 1900s.

A large collection of videos from the International Monetary Fund, searchable by country, year, language and a variety of topics.

Tutorials on basic and advanced searching, the help feature in FDsys, and on searching by citation; plan to revisit this site as new videos are occasionally added.

Learn how to explore census data via the United States Census Bureau with short video tutorials.

Speeches and press briefings

From the Government Printing Office

Tutorials for finding census data and understanding terminology and geographic breakdowns used by the Census Bureau.

Common research & library tasks in short video tutorials and links to other help guides.