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The U.S. Government Publishing Office’s (GPO) GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government, hit a record number of retrievals in 2023 — 1.15 billion. This is a 32% increase from the number of retrievals in 2022 and a 215% increase from the number of retrievals in 2018. The most retrieved collection of… Read More

Library Shelfie Day is Wednesday, January 24, 2024, and GPO wants to showcase your library staff and your ‘FDLP shelfies.’ Snap a few photos of you and your colleagues working in your library. Share your photos with us prior to the 24th, and your library could be featured on GPO’s social media and on FDLP.gov. Have some fun with Library Shelfie Day, and don’t forget to… Read More

Starting on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, the FDLP Resource Guides Team will update the friendly URLs of all resource guides. To minimize broken links of replaced URLs, every guide’s homepage now has its permalink information. If you are currently linking to or sharing the guides using the friendly URLs, we recommend updating them with their permalinks. For questions or… Read More

Register to attend the live training webinar, "FDLP Workshop: Investing in Your Digital Presence." Date: Thursday, January 25, 2024 Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (EST)   Recording and closed captioning are available. All webinars are free of charge. Speakers: Ashley… Read More

This message has been cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication.    The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is seeking nominations for individuals to serve as members of the Depository Library Council. New members will serve a three-year term (June 1, 2024 - May 31, 2027). Submit your nomination (or self-nomination) by … Read More

The U.S. Government Publishing Office’s (GPO) print procurement program awarded $496 million in contracts with private sector printing companies across the country to meet the printing and publishing needs of Federal agencies in fiscal year 2023. Nearly 78% of all printing ordered by Federal agencies from GPO is performed by private sector firms working under contract… Read More

As the FDLP undergoes a transition to a digital framework, important communications are being sent from GPO. There has been an uptick in emails being blocked by some libraries’ email security. In order to ensure important communications are not blocked, libraries are asked to whitelist the following email addresses that GPO uses to send communications: FDLP News:… Read More

The FDLP Academy presented informative sessions about U.S. Government data and statistics earlier this year. The speakers are subject-matter experts from the Federal depository library community, GPO, and Federal agencies. Below is a list of the webinar recordings:  Census Business Builder 5.3 data.census.gov Data Librarianship Finding Social… Read More

Dear Federal depository library partners, On behalf of our staff in GPO’s Library Services & Content Management (LSCM) and Superintendent of Documents organizations, we wish you a happy and healthy holiday season. The Federal Depository Library Program is in a time of great transition, and Federal depository librarians have stepped up to the plate,… Read More

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) would like to commend the University of Memphis Libraries for partnering with GPO to add historic Peace Corps publications to GovInfo.  GPO and the University of Memphis Libraries signed a Letter of Agreement in June 2023, making the Digital Content Contributor Partnership official. This latest collaboration between GPO… Read More