Congressionally Mandated Reports CGP Records Available on GitHub

Federal agencies must now submit congressionally mandated reports to GPO in compliance with the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act, after first submitting to Congress or any required committee or subcommittee of Congress. Submitted reports are published and made available to the public on GPO's online system of access, GovInfo, in the Congressionally Mandated Reports collection.

Metadata and Collection Services (MCS), formerly Library Technical Services, has started to make the CGP records for Congressionally Mandated Reports available for downloading in a new GitHub collection of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) Records Maintenance Files repository. The collection contains the 201 bibliographic records added to the CGP in June and July 2024. The records are also available in OCLC.

The records are based on the MODS metadata of the GovInfo Congressionally Mandated Reports collection. MCS staff members complete and authenticate the records for the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC). All Congressionally Mandated Reports records may be retrieved in the CGP by the expert mode search: WLTS=CMR. Preliminary data about the records is available in the collection description on GitHub.

MCS is very interested in your experiences with these records and our GitHub repositories. Please submit your experiences and recommendations via askGPO. Please use the Cataloging/Metadata (Policy and Records) category.