GPO’s Cataloging Data in the Cataloging Record Distribution Program

Colorado School of Mines Cataloging and Metadata Contributor Partnership

Remaining to be cataloged in this partnership are some publications with this title:

• 0624-B-05 (EL) - Water Resources Investigations (numbered) (I 19.42/4:)

The records in this project described electronic versions of publications from these USGS series:

• 0620-A (EL) – Circulars (numbered) (I 19.4/2:)
• 0624 (P/EL) - Professional Papers (P/EL) (I 19.16:). 
• 0624-B-05 (EL) - Water Resources Investigations (numbered) (I 19.42/4:)
• Bulletins (I 19.3:)
• Water Supply Papers (I 19.13:)

To locate the records in the CGP, search for the keywords “CATPART; CSM”.

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Congressional bills and resolutions in GovInfo

GPO is in a beta period testing a new process to generate catalog records for House and Senate bills and resolutions from the metadata of the GovInfo Congressional Bills Collection.

Please note:

• Records will be shared with MARCIVE for dissemination in the CRDP when they have OCLC numbers.  The records may be made available first in the CGP and on GitHub without them.
• The expected number of records is approximately 10,000-15,000 records per Congress, based on the number of bills and resolutions in the GovInfo collection.
• The records are not at PCC, or even minimal-level, but they will have at least one corporate body, which may come from the Congress.gov Policy Areas Terms list.

All records have:

• Complete SuDocs numbers
• OCLC numbers
• PURLs to GovInfo and URLs to Congress.gov

All records do not have:

• Item numbers
• Full-level cataloging.

To locate the records in the CGP, conduct an expert search of WLTS=BILLSRESOLUTIONS

The records will be available to libraries which profile to receive them. See 2.3 Profiled Cataloging Records – alternate selection choices in the CRDP Profile Guide.

See also:

• FDLP news alert
• 2023 Fall Conference presentation
• CGP on GitHub Bills and Resolutions Collection

Congressional Research Service Reports

Records for individual titles in four monographic series are available to libraries selecting the associated item numbers:

• Item 0807-A-07 (EL) - CRS Report (LC 14.23:)
• Item 0807-A-09 (EL) - In Focus (LC 14.24:)
• Item 0807-A-12 (EL) – Insight (LC 14.25/2:)
• Item 0807-A-10 (EL) - Legal Sidebar (LC 14.25)

To locate the records in the CGP, conduct an expert search of WLTS= CRSREP.

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The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER)

The majority of records have item numbers in this partnership collection of publications from numerous Federal authors. These records are available to libraries selecting the associated item numbers.

For the records without item numbers in this project, they are available to libraries which profile to receive them. See 2.3 Profiled Cataloging Records – alternate selection choices in the CRDP Profile Guide.

To locate the records in the CGP, conduct an expert search of WCAT=FRASER.

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GPO Historic Shelflist Project

The project 4 records are available to libraries which profile to receive them. See 2.3 Profiled Cataloging Records – alternate selection choices in the CRDP Profile Guide.

To locate the records in the CGP, conduct an expert search of WCAT=historic shelflist.

For more information, see:

• FDLP news alert
• 2023 Federal Depository Library Conference poster entitled “GPO’s Historic Shelflist Update: Where Are We Now?”
• Show & Tell – Cards of the Historic Shelflist Webcast

Law Library of Congress Digital Reports Project

The records are available to libraries selecting item number 0818-J-06 (EL) – Legal Research Reports (LC 42.20). Please note there isn’t a collection level record for these reports.

To locate the records in the CGP, conduct an expert search of WLTS=LCLAWLIB. The scope of the project is 5,000 records.

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Pilot Project 1

The majority of the approximately 1,000 records do not have item numbers. Records describing the print version of the 667 titles related to FDR-era Civil Defense (PR 32:) have been added to the CGP.

The project publications are currently being digitized and will be ingested into GovInfo. At that time, catalog records will be created and made available to interested libraries in the CRDP.

 See 2.3 Profiled Cataloging Records – alternate selection choices in the CRDP Profile Guide.

To locate the records in the CGP, conduct an expert search of WLTS=PILOTPROJECT1USU.

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Pilot Project 2

GPO is cataloging approximately 650 World War II-era military technical manuals in print and some multi-formats. After the digital surrogates are ingested into GovInfo, GPO will catalog the digital versions.

Dates of record availability to be determined.

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U.S. Congressional Serial Set Project

FDLP.gov Project page

The records describing the individual documents and reports in the Serial Set do not have item numbers and are available to libraries which profile to receive them. See 2.3 Profiled Cataloging Records – alternate selection choices in the CRDP Profile Guide. All records have SuDocs class numbers for the Congressional publication series and the Serial Set volumes.

FDLP news alert (First Batch) A small number of records were made available without OCLC numbers but OCLC numbers have been added to these records.

FDLP news alert (second batch on GitHub)

Additional records are created outside the batch process releases, as they are identified. These are made available through the CRDP as they are cataloged.

In the expert search mode, you can use a local field search to retrieve all of the Serial Set records and combine that search with other elements: WLTS=SERIALSET?

University of Minnesota Libraries Cataloging and Metadata Contributor Partnership

These records describe older print publications in the I 16:, N, and W SuDocs ranges.

See 2.3 Profiled Cataloging Records – alternate selection choices in the CRDP Profile Guide. Some of the records include inactive item numbers. When the item numbers were in the records used for cataloging and could be verified in the Historic Shelflist or Monthly Catalog, they were retained.

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