GPO/University of Minnesota Libraries Cataloging and Metadata Contributor Partnership: New Records Added to CGP

  • Last Updated: February 18, 2022
  • Published: February 18, 2022

Library Services & Content Management (LSCM) would like to commend both the University of Minnesota Libraries (UMN; FDLP Library 0295) staff and GPO’s Library Technical Services (LTS) team for partnering to enhance the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) by adding records for ceased agency publications held by that regional depository library.

GPO and UMN signed a Letter of Agreement in July 2021, making this Cataloging and Metadata Contributor Partnership official, but LTS staff actually began working to create records based on publication scans provided by UMN Libraries in May 2019.

This latest collaboration between GPO and UMN Libraries includes historic publications from three, significant ceased agencies and related SuDoc classes:

  • The War Department (W).
  • The Department of the Navy (N).
  • The Office of Education in the Department of the Interior (I 16).

In order to support this collaborative partnership agreement, UMN Libraries staff scan their uncatalogued publications and post links to those scans, with accompanying metadata, to a server-hosted spreadsheet, so that LTS staff can review those digital surrogates and create CGP records for those publications. Recently, LTS staff added 266 records to the CGP for I 16 publications held by UMN Libraries. These efforts enhance and strengthen the National Collection of U.S. Government Public Information.