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Register to attend the live training webinar, "Overview of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Grants, Research, and Policy Work." Date:  Thursday, April 11, 2024 Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (EDT)   Recording and closed captioning are available. All webinars are free… Read More

Per the recent Print Distribution Updates FDLP News Alert, distribution of 20- and 50-copy titles on the PDT List has begun. February was a month of transition. Smaller quantities of material, ordered under the limited print distribution framework, were distributed to the libraries currently selecting the PDT List titles. Larger quantities of material, ordered prior to… Read More

Register for the webinar, “Introducing FDLP Data Manager (FDM) – A New Tool to Assist in Managing FDLP Collections," which has been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Those who registered for the original February 21 event do not need to re-register; however, you may want to update the webinar date on your calendars. New login information will be emailed to… Read More

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director Hugh Nathanial Halpern has named Elizabeth (Beth) Shearer as the Agency’s Chief Human Capital Officer. As Chief Human Capital Officer, Shearer will plan and implement the human resources systems and oversee the policies and procedures that guide GPO’s innovative human resources operation — policies designed… Read More

Register to attend the live training webinar, "How PubMed Works: Introduction." Date:  Tuesday, April 2, 2024 Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (EDT)   Recording and closed captioning are available. All webinars are free of charge. Speakers:  April Wright,… Read More

FDLP Distribution is implementing a new procedure for distributing Separates in individually packaged cartons.   FDLP Separates are usually large bound or unbound volumes, maps or posters in tubes, and oversized publications that must be shipped in individual containers or cartons. They appear on Separates shipping lists, designated with the suffix “S” (e.g., 2024… Read More

Effective March 1, 2024, GPO’s Library Services & Content Management (LSCM) will implement the following policies on changing the Superintendent of Documents classification (SuDoc) numbers in GPO records in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications and OCLC. LSCM’s Chief of Library Technical Services (LTS) and LTS Supervisory Librarians will make… Read More

Register to attend the live training webinar, "Introduction to the Office of the Federal Register’s eCFR Website." Date:  Thursday, March 28, 2024 Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (EDT)   Recording and closed captioning are available. All webinars are free of charge. … Read More

As of February 2024, GPO’s Library Services and Content Management (LSCM) has posted a new set of all MARC bibliographic records (1,080,961) in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) on GitHub. That is an increase of 58,079 records (6%) since the 2023 snapshot. In combination with the CGP Records Monthly Files collection of… Read More

This message is being posted on behalf of the U.S. Census Bureau. Census Academy is offering a 2024 webinar series, “Exploring the Diversity of Census Bureau Data.” This webinar series will use real-life scenarios to help you learn how to locate and use data tools to access Census Bureau data. “Exploring the Diversity of Census Bureau Data” is broken… Read More