In this tab, you'll find starting points for various Colorado government sources including legal and data sources.
In this tab, you'll find starting points for sources related to El Paso County and our city.
In this tab, you'll find starting points for our neighboring states.
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Colorado State Document Numbers are very similar to SuDocs Numbers. Let's use this item as an example:
First, we want to concentrate on the part of the call number before the period with State Document numbers. This part of the call number identifies the issuing agency. In our example, we have "HED6/50" which indicates the Colorado Department of Higher Education Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation.
Around the period, numbers are read as whole numbers not decimals. Therefore a call number beginning HED6/50.2... comes before one beginning HED6/50.28...
After the next stop character, a slash, elements with letters go before elements with numbers. Therefore a call number beginning HED6/50.2/W84... comes before one beginning HED6/50.2/1978...
After the next slash, publication numbers are filed in sequence and dates are ordered chronologically. Numbers go before dates. Therefore a call number beginning HED6/50.2/W84/2008... comes after a call number beginning HED6/50.2/W84/pt1/2007...
Sometimes, words come after the publication number or date element of the call number. Nothing always comes before something, so an item with the call number HED6/50.2/W84/2008/INTERNET would come after the call number HED6/50.2/W84/2008.
