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The Mid-Session Review, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2010, is now available from GPO on FDsys and GPO Access.The Mid-Session Review is an annual update of estimates for Federal receipts and outlays that reflects economic, legislative, and other changes that have occurred since the President's Budget was released in May. Read More

GPO is releasing monthly statistics on the activities of Statistics for  July 2009 activites of the FDLP and the Cataloging and Indexing Program have been released. Read More

As lawmakers and Americans discuss health care reform, The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has made available H.R. 3200, America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, in electronic and printed form.  The bill was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce. The authentic, electronic version is available on GPO’s Federal Digital… Read More

Shipping List # 2009-0171-M has been cancelled and will not be used.View a listing of Shipping Lists distributed this past week on the FDLP Desktop. Read More

As part of Library Services & Content Management's (LSCM) continuing efforts to break out item numbers for EL versions of publications when possible, the following item numbers have been created. These new item numbers will also be published in the next paper edition of Administrative Notes Technical Supplement (ANTS) as well as in the interim WEBTech Notes Excel file… Read More

During the data gathering phase of the report on regional conditions, discussions at recent strategic planning sessions at the Depository Library Council meeting, and the latest meeting of regional depository library coordinators, many in the depository library community expressed concern over the processes in place for the disposition of depository materials process. The… Read More

The FDLP Community site, available since October 2008, provides a location where depository library staff can meet, collaborate, share ideas, ask questions, create discussion groups, and much more.As part of GPO's commitment to improving the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), GPO will start using the forum piece of the FDLP Community site for interactive… Read More

This month the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has chosen to spotlight Purdue University Library, a library that provides outstanding reference services for library users and librarians alike. Purdue University Library in West Lafayette, Indiana, reaches out to people through numerous means such as electronic discussion lists and online reference services. They… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is making a change to cataloging practice effective August 1, 2009. The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), Bibliographic Cooperative (BIBCO) has recently modified its cataloging practice for electronic resource monographs LTIS has evaluated the change in practice and has decided to adopt the BIBCO requirements for… Read More

Government Computer News (GCN), in its July 27, 2009 issue, named GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) one of the “10 Great Government Web Sites”. GCN rated the sites on how well they have incorporated interactive tools that serve the public and how well they support President Obama's goal to increase Government transparency.GPO launched FDsys earlier this year. This… Read More