Additional Brief Bibliographic Records in the CGP

With the completion of the U.S. Government Printing Office's (GPO) initial harvesting pilot involving the Web site of the Environmental Protection Agency and the ongoing manual harvesting efforts, Library Services and Content Management (LSCM) is in the process of developing a comprehensive workflow to manage the acquisition, classification, cataloging, and storage of all Web harvested content, including publications acquired through the pilot.  As part of this workflow, LSCM staff have begun processing a sample of the results from the harvesting pilot.

As this processing continues, users of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP), will see an increase in the number of brief bibliographic records included in the database. These records will be identifiable by the phrase “EPA Pilot Project” in the 590 field of the MARC record display. Please keep in mind that brief bibliographic records are only available through the CGP and are not included in OCLC.

More detailed information regarding this project will be posted once processing of the sample has been completed.