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Last Updated: 9/17/2009 8:58:33 AM

Celebrate Constitution Day with Yavapai College

How much do you know about the United States Constitution? Come out to Yavapai College on Thurs., Sept. 17, Constitution Day, and learn more about the living document that has served as the supreme law of the U.S. since 1787.  
 
Activities take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Yavapai College. Stop by Building #3 on the Prescott Campus or the Student Union on the Verde Valley Campus and receive free handouts and mini U.S. Constitutions.  
 
If you really want to explore America’s government from the U.S. Constitution to today, visit the Yavapai College Library at the Prescott Campus. The college library is a Federal Depository Library for Congressional District I and one of only 14 depository libraries in Ariz.  
 
The Yavapai College Library has approximately 50,000 volumes of government documents, many of which are available for checkout from the library. The library receives federal publications directly from the Government Printing Office and has numerous reference resources available to local constituents.  
 
“We obtain current and historical documents, publications that we believe will be of interest to area residents,” said Mollie Gugler, Library Specialist at the Yavapai College Library. “We keep census materials, documents from the U.S. Geological Survey, Arizona topographical maps, publications from Health and Human Services; particularly materials that relate to Arizona and this region.”  
 
For Constitution Day, the Yavapai College Library staff has created a multimedia presentation highlighting the Federal Depository Program which runs from Sept. 14- Sept. 25, 2009. The presentation runs continuously on the InfoPortal just inside the library.  
 
Gugler also reports that the YC Library will have displays of noteworthy government documents from the library’s collection and a display of unique government items such as a puzzle of the moon, 3-D glasses from NASA, as well as children’s activity books from the National Park Service, and a U.S. Department of Justice arson investigation guide and more.  
 
Constitution Day was enacted in 2004 and is an American federal observance that recognizes the ratification of the United States Constitution and those who have become U.S. citizens. It is observed on Sept. 17, the day the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in 1787.  
 
For more information about Yavapai College’s activities for Constitution Day, please contact Jeff Rhoads at the Prescott Campus at 928.717.7679 or Tori Scott on the Verde Valley Campus at 928.634.6545. To learn more about the Yavapai College Library, please call 928.776.2261 or visit YC on the web at www.yc.edu.