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The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) will be performing scheduled maintenance to upgrade the Aleph integrated library system (ILS).Start Date: Thursday, June 24th, 17:30 EDTEnd Date: Monday, June 28, 2010, 12:00 EDTTotal Duration: Approximately 90 hoursOn Thursday and Monday, the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) may experience brief intermittent downtime… Read More

In response to concerns raised by the Depository Library Council as well as the community for an objective evaluation of the needs of libraries within the Federal Depository Library Program, the U.S. Government Printing Office contracted with Outsell, Inc. to conduct a combined series of surveys as part of a Customer Relations Program (CRP). These surveys consisted of a… Read More

St. Mary's University's Louis J. Blume Library's Government Information on the Web Subject Index is now an official service partner for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). This subject index provides a starting point for browsing subject areas, bringing both broad and detailed subject listings from many libraries together in one index.The U.S. Government… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) was recognized with one of the highest honors at the 8th annual American Business Awards ceremony in New York City. GPO won the Stevie Award for Organization of the Year in the Government Agency or Non-profit category. The American Business Awards honor the achievements and contributions of organizations and executives worldwide… Read More

GPO has revised the Guidelines for Superseding Depository Publications. In addition to enumerating the supersession criteria, the guidelines incorporate examples that assist in determining if a publication meets the criteria for supersession as well as best practices to consider before superseding a title.The guidelines are effective as of Monday, June 21, 2010 and… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been working on a series of informational and educational videos for the Federal depository library community that cover a variety of topics related to the Federal Depository Library Program.GPO has completed its first video, which is an instructional overview of the relaunched WEBTech Notes application. The video overviews… Read More

In August 2009, U.S. Government Printing Office's (GPO) PURL server experienced a significant hardware failure and was unavailable for several weeks. When this happened, all PURL links became inaccessible. As a result of the outage of this critical system, GPO has been taking steps to ensure high availability and redundancy of the PURL application.GPO staff have been… Read More

The migration of content from GPO Access to FDsys began with the FDsys launch in January 2009, and as of now, 29 of the 40 collections have been migrated. In the coming weeks, GPO staff will be working to finalize, test, and release the remaining collections. It was previously reported that migration would be complete by June 30, 2010. Due to the constraints of testing… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is currently recruiting for the position of Program Planning Specialist. This position is located in Library Services and Content Management at GPO's Central Office in Washington, DC.The incumbent of this position will perform a wide range of analytical and program planning duties, including communications planning, program… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has joined a worldwide digital preservation alliance to further collaborate with Federal Depository Libraries and other organizations on preservation initiatives. LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) provides libraries with digital preservation tools and support so they can collect and preserve their own copies of authorized… Read More