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The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP), including GPO’s MetaLib, will undergo routine maintenance. Start Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 8:00 p.m. (EDT) End Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024, 6:00 a.m. (EDT) During this maintenance period, you may experience brief, intermittent downtime. We apologize for the inconvenience and… Read More

New featured publications have been added to the Historic Publications page for Spring 2024, including: Peace Corps publications from Digital Content Contributor, the University of Memphis. Storyboard for the 1979 film “Charlie Brown Clears the Air.” Issues of the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation back to 1955. … Read More

LSCM continues to update the formats available for selection in the List of Classes to reflect the implementation of the digital FDLP. Previous updates to the List of Classes impacted primarily the titles without separate EL format item numbers, and did not impact individual library selection profiles. Next, LSCM staff will be inactivating item numbers for… Read More

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director Hugh Nathanial Halpern presented GPO’s FY 2025 appropriations request before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations. Director Halpern requested appropriations in the amount of $136,089,000, a 3.1 percent increase over GPO’s FY 2024 appropriation. Direct appropriations represent only about 10… Read More

This message is being posted on behalf of the Indiana State Library.  Registration is now open for virtual attendance for the 2024 Government Information Day Conference on Friday, May 17, 2024. Government Information Day, or GID, is a free biennial conference for librarians interested in learning about Government resources and improving information literacy… Read More

A new webcast, "LSCM GitHub Repositories Webcast Series - Overview," is now available for viewing. Speaker: Stephen Kharfen, Supervisory Librarian, Library Technical Services, Library Services & Content Management (LSCM), U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Learning outcomes: LSCM uses GitHub, the web-based computer source code sharing and… Read More

Register to attend the live training webinar, "Orientation to the Constitution Annotated." Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (EDT)   Recording and closed captioning are available. All webinars are free of charge. Speaker: Barbara Bavis, Bibliographic… Read More

As a reminder, next week is National Library Week (NLW), April 7 – 13, 2024. The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) wants to showcase Federal depository libraries nationwide and the important work you do every day. Share a photo of yourself at your library, and you could be featured on FDLP.gov and GPO social media. Don’t forget to download this NLW image to… Read More

Next week, April 7 – 13, 2024, is National Library Week (NLW). The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) wants to showcase Federal depository libraries nationwide and the important work you do every day. Share a photo of yourself at your library, and you could be featured on FDLP.gov and GPO social media. Don’t forget to download this NLW image to share on your… Read More

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) will perform scheduled maintenance on the following websites: Catalog of U.S. Government Publications MetaLib FDLP Data Manager (FDM) PURL Usage Reporting Tool Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government  During maintenance, the websites may experience intermittent downtime. Start: Saturday, March 30, 2024,… Read More