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Final Shipping Lists of FY 2024 and Claims Updates

October 18, 2024
The final shipping lists issued for FY 2024 are: Paper: 2024-0129-P Separates: 2024-0038-S Please note that nothing was distributed for shipping list 2024-0128-P. View recent shipping lists and archived shipping lists on FDLP.gov. FDLP Data Manager is also available to review shipping list data customized to your library’s selection… Read More

Internet Archive DDOS Attack Impacts GPO PURLs

October 17, 2024
The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit digital library offering millions of free books, movies, and audio files, plus billions of saved web pages in the Wayback Machine. GPO links to some IA content in catalog records through use of Persistent Uniform Resource Locators (PURLs). When a user clicks on a PURL, they are redirected to wherever the content currently resides… Read More

Four Libraries Expand Preservation Steward Agreements with GPO

October 17, 2024
Libraries at the University of Minnesota, the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, the University of Kentucky, and the University of South Carolina have expanded upon their Preservation Steward collections with the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO). To help libraries meet the needs of efficient Government document stewardship in the digital era, GPO has established… Read More

CGP Routine Maintenance, October 17, 2024

October 17, 2024
The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) will undergo routine maintenance beginning tonight, Thursday, October 17, 2024.Start Date: Thursday, October 17, 2024, 9:00 p.m. (EDT)End Date: Thursday, October 17, 2024, 11:59 p.m. (EDT)Duration: 3 hours  During this maintenance period, you may experience downtime. GPO’s MetaLib will be… Read More

Show Us Your Spooktacular Library

October 17, 2024
Is your library decorated for Halloween? Are you featuring any ghoulish Government publications? Have some fun with your library’s ‘stand-up Ben.’ Dress him up in a creative costume, and get him in the spirit. Send us your Halloween photos, and your library could be featured on GPO social media and FDLP.gov.   Read More

Sad News to Share about LSCM Teammate, Joe Paskoski

October 16, 2024
GPO mourns the loss of our teammate Joe Paskoski.  He passed away on October 7, 2024, after a brief illness. Joe had 52 years of Federal service, beginning his career at GPO in 1985 working with our FDLP partners.Many of you worked with Joe in different capacities. He started at GPO as a depository inspector, worked in web content, and then as a Senior Outreach… Read More

GPO Makes Available Thousands of New U.S. Congressional Serial Set Volumes

October 16, 2024
U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has added more than 3,000 volumes of the Congressional Serial Set containing more than 45,000 individual documents and reports to GPO’s GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. This comes as part of a multi-year effort with the Library of Congress to digitize… Read More

State of the FDLP Report Now Available

October 15, 2024
The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is pleased to announce the release of the State of the Federal Depository Library Program, 2022-2023.This report combines Biennial Survey data with other observations and fulfills the requirements of 44 U.S. Code §1909 for the Superintendent of Documents to report on conditions at depository libraries. The report covers the… Read More

FDLP Web Archive Temporarily Unavailable

October 10, 2024
The FDLP Web Archive is currently unavailable due to a security incident involving the Internet Archive (IA), which hosts this collection resource. This incident has impacted their system, and as a result, access to the FDLP Web Archive is temporarily disrupted.You can follow IA social media accounts for the latest updates. https://x.com/internetarchive https:/… Read More