Searching for Philadelphia City Government Publications

You can search for Philadelphia City Government publications in the Free Library's online catalog. The link below will allow you to telnet to the Free Library. Once there, login as flpnet.

City government publications can be found in a few ways:

• Author search for agency or department

  For all government publications of specific Philadelphia agencies, search for "Philadelphia (pa.) name of agency" (no quotes). For example, to find the publications of the Mayor's Office, search for "Philadelphia (pa.) mayor" (no quotes).

• Title search

  To find the record of a publication for which you know the title, do a title search.

• Call number search

  For a list of all of Philadelphia's government publications, search for "gov pub cities p 53" (no quotes).
  For specific publications, for which you know the number, search for "gov pub cities p 53 - **" (no quotes) where ** is the number (or part of the number) of the form.

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Last updated on May 24, 1996.