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Acting Public Printer Davita Vance-Cooks testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations on the U.S. Government Printing Office’s (GPO) FY 2014 appropriations request. GPO is requesting $128.5 million for FY 2014, which is provided through three separate accounts in the annual Legislative Branch Appropriations bill: The Congressional Printing… Read More

All Federal Depository librarians and library users, please take note of the following domain name change:On Friday, May 17, 2013, the USA Trade Online web address will change from www.usatradeonline.gov to https://usatrade.census.gov/. Please take note of the new address and update any bookmarks, shortcuts or other documentation you have on the site.There will be a month… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) must perform scheduled maintenance on the Depository Selection Information Management System (DSIMS) this weekend:Start Date: Sunday, May 19, 10:00 a.m. EDTEnd Date: Sunday, May 19, 12:30 p.m. EDTTotal Duration: Approximately 2.5 hoursBetween 10:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. that day, DSIMS will not be accessible. We apologize for any… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is pleased to release the first set of Library Forecast Data Reports from the FDLP Forecast Study. Data Reports present results by individual Library and State Forecast question, reported by qualitative and quantitative analysis.This first release includes the following Library Forecast Data Reports:Overall High-Level Quantitative… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) was recently named one of the top 10 original catalogers in the world in OCLC’s Annual Report for FY12. During that period, GPO added 17,310 new records for U.S. Government information products to WorldCat, a database of bibliographic information built continuously by libraries around the world and OCLC.As one of the founding… Read More

In the coming weeks, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) will begin releasing results from the FDLP Forecast Study. The Study queried Federal depository libraries about their pressing issues, goals, and viewpoints, and asked them to identify initiatives and needs. Data Reports will present qualitative and quantitative analysis of the Study responses by individual… Read More

The recordings and handouts from “Partners in Preservation: Government Information for Future Generations,” are available from the FDLP Webinar archive. This was the Federal Depository Library Program’s (FDLP) first virtual multi-day meeting and was held April 23-25, 2013, in recognition of Preservation Week.You can listen to the programs at your leisure:Welcoming remarks… Read More

Promote GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) with new pencils and sticky note pads. These items are available in lots of 25 and 50. Use these at your reference desks, at special events, and when working with patrons.A variety of other FDLP promotional items are also available and ready to be shipped straight to your door. Read More

New Electronic Titles (NET) are now available for April 2013. These files are accessible from the New Titles section of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been declared independent to create bibliographic records in RDA by NACO and BIBCO. Therefore, effective 1 April, 2013, all of GPO’s original bibliographic and authority records are being created according to the RDA standard.In accordance with RDA policies articulated for copy cataloging by PCC and OCLC, GPO will continue to… Read More