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In 2004, GPO proposed digitizing all retrospective Federal publications back to the earliest days of the Federal Government. Following the conduct of a pilot project in 2006 and its evaluation in 2007, we issued an RFP in 2008 for a cooperative relationship with a public or private sector participant or participants where the uncompressed, unaltered files created as a… Read More

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) is conducting user satisfaction assessments to improve their publicly available services, including PACER. They would like to conduct a focus group of depository librarians. If you are interested in participating in the focus group, please e-mail Serena Chao ([email protected]). To ensure the focus group includes a… Read More

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi Applauds GPO's Green Initiatives{mbox:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib754Rp4i8k|VIDEO HEIGHT|VIDEO WIDTH|title=U.S. Government Printing Office: The Congressional Record on 100% Recycled Paper|vthumb=recycled2.png|height=175px|width=215px}The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the U.S. Congress achieved a major milestone in their… Read More

The White House, U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), and the National Archives' Office of the Federal Register (OFR) achieved a breakthrough in making Government information available and usable by the public. GPO converted the text of the Federal Register (2000-2009) into XML (extensible markup language) and placed it online in numerous Federal Government portals,… Read More

The United States Naval Academy Nimitz Library is an example of a specialized library that proves they can meet both the specific needs of its primary user group as well as the research needs of the general public.Please read our Spotlight Library article for more information on how this library balances all research needs and builds an outstanding specialized collection… Read More

The preliminary detailed agenda for the Depository Library Council meeting and Federal Depository Library Conference with names of speakers, discussion topics, and educational programs has been released.There is still time left for online registration. If you are planning to attend and have not yet registered, online registration closes on October 14th. On-site… Read More

The final issue (November-December 2008) of the Administrative Notes Technical Supplement (ANTS) is being distributed to Federal depository libraries in an upcoming shipment box. ANTS has now ceased as a printed publication. The information that was disseminated in ANTS will be available online only in the new WEBTech Notes application.The new WEBTech Notes application is… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is currently in the process of re-indexing FDsys to include new content. During this time the site will remain active; however, some content will not appear in the search results. Anything published after September 28, 2009 will not be available on FDsys until the re-indexing is complete, which we expect will take a few days. We… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is pleased to announce a ninety-day pilot that increases the z39.50 per session limit to 10,000 for download and retrieval of records from the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP), effective October 1, 2009. The existing z39.50 password will remain in place for the duration of the pilot.The pilot is an incremental step in… Read More

Library Services and Content Management (LSCM) is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) to provide electronic access to Public Health Reports. Public Health Reports is the official journal of the U.S. Public Health Service but is published by ASPH. The peer-reviewed journal is issued bi-monthly and offers articles… Read More