Library Guides: Government Sources by Subject: Videos and Tutorials

Locally Produced

Poverty Rates for Asian American Pacific Islanders, 65 years & older
Learn how to use Social Explorer to retrieve and download data tables from the American Community Survey for poverty rates by race by age
Social Explorer
Learn how to find the Social Explorer demographic data resource through the UW libraries website.
Social Explorer, Census Tracts in a City
Learn how to use Social Explorer to find data from different census tracts in a city.
Discover and Locate Government Documents
There are two methods for discovering government documents presented in this four minute video: search the government's Monthly Catalog (Access for all on-campus; login required from off-campus) and locate the items in the UW Library catalog; or find digital documents via HathiTrust.
Proquest Congressional, Hearings in the UW Libraries Collections
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.
Statistics from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) by census tract
Learn to find information about home loans by census tract using Aggregate Reports compiled by the FFIEC in this 2 minute video.

Government and Commercial Productions

C-SPAN
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.
IMF Videos
A large collection of videos from the International Monetary Fund, searchable by country, year, language and a variety of topics.
FDsys Tutorials, FDsys (Federal Digital System)
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.
Explore Census Data
Learn how to explore census data via the United States Census Bureau with short video tutorials.

Government YouTube Channels

The White House
Speeches and press briefings
GPOprinter
From the Government Printing Office
U.S. Census Bureau
Tutorials for finding census data and understanding terminology and geographic breakdowns used by the Census Bureau.

Using CQ.com

CQ.com Basic Search
Introduction to searching on CQ.com and an explanation of the results in this 2 minute video.

There are a myriad of tools for bill-tracking and analysis at CQ.com. Important tools and searching aids are introduced in the following videos produced by CQ.com.

CQ.com Advanced Search
Watch this video for an introduction to many CQ.com features and how to create more sophisticated and precise searches. Note: this video was created for individual account holders. Some features such as saving results to the document manager are not available for organization subscriptions.
CQ.com Search Aids
Basic information on how punctuation affects search results.
CQ.com Search Format Tips
Information on formatting searches for more relevant results such as finding a document by its committee report number.

Tour Government Publications: Pt.1

Librarian Cass Hartnett introduces the UW Libraries' Government Publications: what our resources are and how to find them in this 8 minute video.

Tour Government Publications: Pt.2

Cass Hartnett's tour of the Government Publications collections continues in this 6 minute video.

Tour Government Publications: Pt.3

A 10 minute narrated slideshow tour with a detailed index.

How Do I...

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

Government Sources by Subject: Videos and Tutorials