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The U.S. Army Chaplin Corps recently released the title, Reliable and Religious: U.S. Army Chaplains and the War of 1812, with a printing error; the chapter numbers in the Table of Contents do not match the page numbers. The agency has been contacted and has decided not to correct the error due to the expense of reprinting. Based on this decision by the agency, the copy… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office is seeking recommendations for new members to serve on the Depository Library Council (DLC) from June 1, 2012, through May 31, 2015. The DLC is an advisory body that counsels the Public Printer in matters pertaining to future trends, innovation, and new concepts in libraries and information dissemination, particularly as they relate to… Read More

GPO is releasing monthly statistics on the activities of Statistics for  November 2011 activites of the FDLP and the Cataloging and Indexing Program have been released. Read More

The December 2011 issue of FDLP Connection has been released. This issue is a wrap-up of the 2011 Depository Library Council Meeting and Federal Depository Library Conference.In this issue, Mary Alice Baish provides her insights as Superintendent of Documents from the Meeting and Conference and delivers a “call to action” to provide feedback and ideas; your opinion is… Read More

Recently the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) announced that effective November 4, 2011 GPO Access would be “archive only”. This means that its content was incorporated into FDsys and new content will be added to FDsys, not to GPO Access.Since this announcement was made, questions have been received about other public-facing services provided by GPO, specifically,… Read More

Robert W. Houk, who served as Public Printer of the United States at the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) from March 1990 to February 1993, died Sunday, December 4, at his home in Shelby, OH. He was 84. Houk served as the Nation’s 22nd Public Printer after being appointed by President George H.W. Bush. During his three years as the head of GPO, Houk issued a… Read More

Item number drops made though the Amendment of Item Selections Web form during November 2011 may not have been properly processed. While the issue has been resolved, if you dropped items during this time period please check the Item Lister to see if your deselections are listed.If they are not listed, resubmit your drops via the Amendment of Item Selections Web form. If… Read More

The following is a message from the Historian, Special Projects Division, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State to all Federal depository libraries:December 3, 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series, the largest and most comprehensive series of its type in the world. First published in 1861, the series has… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is asking for your participation to identify and document the most pressing Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) related issues in your state through the development of a State Forecast and State Focused Action Plan. Your feedback will be consulted in critical decision making about the future of the FDLP.On October 20, 2011,… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has released its first mobile Web application (app), which provides the public with quick, easy access to information on Members of Congress. Based on the Guide to the House and Senate Members and information in the Congressional Pictorial Directory, the app allows users to browse for Members of Congress by last name, state,… Read More