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Is your library decorated for Halloween? Are you featuring any ghoulish Government publications? Have some fun with your library’s ‘stand-up Ben.’ Dress him up in a creative costume, and get him in the spirit. Send us your Halloween photos, and your library could be featured on GPO social media and FDLP.gov.   Read More

GPO mourns the loss of our teammate Joe Paskoski.  He passed away on October 7, 2024, after a brief illness. Joe had 52 years of Federal service, beginning his career at GPO in 1985 working with our FDLP partners.Many of you worked with Joe in different capacities. He started at GPO as a depository inspector, worked in web content, and then as a Senior Outreach… Read More

U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has added more than 3,000 volumes of the Congressional Serial Set containing more than 45,000 individual documents and reports to GPO’s GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. This comes as part of a multi-year effort with the Library of Congress to digitize… Read More

New Electronic Titles (NET) are now available for September 2024. These files are accessible from the New Titles section of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). Read More

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is pleased to announce the release of the State of the Federal Depository Library Program, 2022-2023.This report combines Biennial Survey data with other observations and fulfills the requirements of 44 U.S. Code §1909 for the Superintendent of Documents to report on conditions at depository libraries. The report covers the… Read More

The FDLP Web Archive is currently unavailable due to a security incident involving the Internet Archive (IA), which hosts this collection resource. This incident has impacted their system, and as a result, access to the FDLP Web Archive is temporarily disrupted.You can follow IA social media accounts for the latest updates. https://x.com/internetarchive https:/… Read More

The fall 2024 Federal Depository Library Conference is less than two weeks away. We encourage all depository coordinators to share this conference invitation with their library staff, particularly those who work with making Government documents collections more accessible.There will be several programs at the fall 2024 conference focusing on different workflows for… Read More

U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) now has more than 500 Congressionally Mandated Reports (CMR) from more than 75 Federal agencies available for free public access on GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. This number has quadrupled since GPO first put CMRs online in December 2023. These… Read More

GPO stands ready to assist Federal depository libraries that face disasters, both natural and man-made.  If your library is faced with a disaster, when safe to do so, please inform your regional depository and GPO’s Federal Depository Support Services (FDSS) via askGPO or by phone at (202) 512-1119 to let us know if your library is closed. Please remember that… Read More

This message has been cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication.Several new resources for the fall 2024 Federal Depository Library Conference (October 21 -23) are now available:Detailed AgendaFinal SchedulePoster Gallery (with new posters being added daily)Exhibitor Gallery (with new exhibitors being added daily)Additional Conference Resources:View the event page. … Read More