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The Library Services & Content Management (LSCM) Pilot Project 1 initiative, conducted in collaboration with Utah State University’s Merrill Cazier Library, is now complete. Through the pilot, GPO teammates visited the Merrill Cazier Library to assess the condition of tangible documents, conduct item-level inventories, and catalog and digitize Government… Read More

Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 Time: 2:00 p.m.– 3:00 p.m. (ET) Recording and closed captioning are available. All webinars are free of charge.Register to attend the live training webinar, "FDLP Resource Guides: Recap of the Redevelopment Project."Speakers: Catherine Bloom, Systems Librarian, Library Planning and Development (LPD), Library Services … Read More

New sticky notes for DiscoverGov are now available exclusively to Federal depository libraries. DiscoverGov is GPO’s new search tool and unified interface for trusted Government information. It provides simple, one-stop searching across multiple U.S. Federal Government databases, including GPO's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) and GovInfo… Read More

Two libraries in Alaska — the Alaska State Court Law Library and the Alaska State Library — have entered into agreements with GPO to become Preservation Stewards. To help libraries meet the needs of efficient Government document stewardship in the digital era, GPO has established Preservation Stewards to support continued public access to U.S. Government documents in… Read More

The Limited Distribution PDT Dashboard has been replaced with the Print Distribution Dashboard. This new dashboard has a wider scope than the earlier release. The Dashboard displays libraries that are currently selecting any of the paper format titles being distributed through the FDLP and indicates when a library is a Preservation Steward for a particular… Read More

As you prepare for the FDLP Pre-Meeting (April 23) and Spring 2025 DLC Virtual Meeting (May 1), download this cross stitch pattern inspired by the Spring Meeting motifs, and stitch along with your fellow attendees. This ambitious beginner's pattern uses full cross stitches and only five colors of thread/floss. This pattern was composed by Depository Library… Read More

Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Time: 2:00 p.m.– 3:00 p.m. (ET) Recording and closed captioning are available. All webinars are free of charge.Register to attend the live training webinar, "Federal Courts: Structure, Jurisdiction, & Research."Speaker: SaraJean Petite, Reference and Government Documents Librarian, Case Western Reserve University… Read More

U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director Hugh Nathanial Halpern has appointed five new members to the Depository Library Council (DLC). DLC members advise the GPO Director on policy matters relating to the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and access to U.S. Government information. In addition to experience working in various types of libraries, the new… Read More

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director Hugh Nathanial Halpern presented GPO’s FY 2026 appropriations request before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations. Director Halpern requested appropriations in the amount of $135,377,000, a 2.6 percent increase over GPO’s FY 2025 appropriation. GPO operates as a business, and directly… Read More

GPO Director Hugh Halpern will testify today, Wednesday, April 9, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. (ET), before Congress at the Budget Hearing for the Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Budget Office, and the U.S. Government Publishing Office. Watch the hearing.  Read More