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The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) will be performing scheduled maintenance on the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP).Start Date: Wednesday, September 1st, 11:00 p.m. EDTEnd Date: Thursday, September 2nd, 12:01 a.m. EDTTotal Duration: Approximately 1 hourDuring this period, the CGP may experience brief intermittent downtime.Thank you for your cooperation… Read More

September’s Depository Library Spotlight is on the University Libraries of the University of South Dakota. Serving the University of South Dakota campus and a state-wide community, the library has maintained a long tradition of providing access to Government information.Read about how this library's continuing commitment to Government information provides the public with… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) will be performing scheduled maintenance on Saturday, September 4th.Start Time: Saturday, September 4, 2010, 8 a.m. EDTEnd Time: Saturday, September 4, 2010, 1 p.m. EDTTotal Duration: 5 hoursDuring the maintenance period, some services will have limited or no availability due to the nature of the work being performed. Scheduled… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) will be performing scheduled maintenance on the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP).Start Date: Friday, August 27th, 8:00 p.m. EDTEnd Date: Friday, August 27th, 9:00 p.m. EDTTotal Duration: Approximately 1 hourDuring this period, the CGP may experience brief intermittent downtime.Thank you for your cooperation during… Read More

The Partnership for Public Service selected Mike Wash, GPO’s Chief Information Officer, as the Federal Player of the Week. In an interview published in The Washington Post, Mike reflects on his reasons for leaving private sector to “put government online for the American people”. Mike’s work in making tens of millions of federal documents available in FDsys is noted in… Read More

The six states of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming recently held an online conference using the OPAL web conferencing software. Over 5 days, the Six-State Virtual Government Information Conference ran 17 different programs covering numerous topics of interest to Federal depository libraries and government information professionals.GPO is proud to… Read More

GPO is releasing monthly statistics on the activities of Statistics for  July 2010 activites of the FDLP and the Cataloging and Indexing Program have been released. Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) posted a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for library consulting services to Federal Business Opportunities. The contractor will be tasked with developing practical and sustainable models for the FDLP in an information environment dominated by digital technologies. The response deadline is Thursday, August 12, 2010.This RFQ … Read More

Many libraries in the FDLP have voiced interest in establishing cooperative cataloging partnerships with GPO to exchange cataloging records, work together to catalog older materials, or enhance existing cataloging records to meet current cataloging standards. GPO has created guidelines for the establishment of partnerships that have a cataloging component.  Federal… Read More

Registration is now open for the Fall 2010 Federal Depository Library Council Meeting and Federal Depository Library Conference, which will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.The 3-day meeting will begin at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, October 18th, with registration and coffee. The meeting will conclude on Wednesday, October 20th.Hotel InformationAll events… Read More