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Federal depository coordinators can now sign into the FDLP Desktop with their library number and internal password to complete the 2011 Biennial Survey. Once logged in, use the “Biennial Survey” menu that appears above the “Upcoming Events” module.The survey consists of 31 questions and spans 7 pages. Once completed, a copy of your submission is sent to the depository… Read More

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With only nine days left until the start of the Biennial Survey, depositories are reminded that all answers must be reviewed and approved by your institution's library director or designee prior to submission. Now is an ideal time to prepare your institution’s answers.Draft questions were released in June 2011; however, three changes have been made to the draft questions:… Read More

As busy information professionals, it can become difficult to stay current on and participate in events, releases, trends, et cetera. On the other hand, as information professionals, our desire to share our respect for information and interact with like-minded professionals can be insatiable.We at the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) are passionate about Federal… Read More

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

The pilot project with the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) to provide depository library access to approximately 240,000 scientific and technical publications will cease September 30, 2011. The pilot, known as DARTS (Depository Access to Reports Scientific and Technical), began in 2007 and was intended to last one year. It was extended with the hope of… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) will be performing scheduled maintenance this weekend.Start Time: Saturday, September 3, 2011, 08:00 a.m. EDTEnd Time: Saturday, September 3, 2011, 12:01 p.m. EDTTotal Duration: 4 hoursPlease be aware that during this maintenance period, some of GPO's public facing Web services (with the exception of FDsys) may have limited… Read More

In its efforts to address the value of Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) membership and to determine baseline outcomes-based performance measures, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), working with Outsell, Inc. and the Depository Library Council, developed a survey for depository library users. The survey ran from October 10, 2010 through March 4, 2011 and… Read More

The August depository spotlight highlights the services of the Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine at Orono. The Fogler Library has provided expert services and no-fee public access to U.S. Government publications as a participant in the FDLP for more than a century. Spotlighted libraries are now featured in FDLP Connection. Read More

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