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GPO has revised the Guidelines for Superseding Depository Publications. In addition to enumerating the supersession criteria, the guidelines incorporate examples that assist in determining if a publication meets the criteria for supersession as well as best practices to consider before superseding a title.The guidelines are effective as of Monday, June 21, 2010 and… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been working on a series of informational and educational videos for the Federal depository library community that cover a variety of topics related to the Federal Depository Library Program.GPO has completed its first video, which is an instructional overview of the relaunched WEBTech Notes application. The video overviews… Read More

In August 2009, U.S. Government Printing Office's (GPO) PURL server experienced a significant hardware failure and was unavailable for several weeks. When this happened, all PURL links became inaccessible. As a result of the outage of this critical system, GPO has been taking steps to ensure high availability and redundancy of the PURL application.GPO staff have been… Read More

The migration of content from GPO Access to FDsys began with the FDsys launch in January 2009, and as of now, 29 of the 40 collections have been migrated. In the coming weeks, GPO staff will be working to finalize, test, and release the remaining collections. It was previously reported that migration would be complete by June 30, 2010. Due to the constraints of testing… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is currently recruiting for the position of Program Planning Specialist. This position is located in Library Services and Content Management at GPO's Central Office in Washington, DC.The incumbent of this position will perform a wide range of analytical and program planning duties, including communications planning, program… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has joined a worldwide digital preservation alliance to further collaborate with Federal Depository Libraries and other organizations on preservation initiatives. LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) provides libraries with digital preservation tools and support so they can collect and preserve their own copies of authorized… Read More

In 2010, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) was informed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Agency-wide STI Program Office that a collection of NASA technical publications contained personally sensitive information and that these publications should not be made available to the public. These documents were distributed to FDLP libraries in… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) will be performing scheduled maintenance on its network infrastructure this weekend.Start Date: Sunday, June 13, 2010, 12:01 a.m. EDTEnd Date: Sunday, June 13, 2010, 04:00 a.m. EDTTotal Duration: 4 hoursPlease be aware that during this maintenance period, GPO's public facing Web services such as PURL resolution, the FDLP Desktop,… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is currently recruiting for the position of Archive Specialist. This position is located in Collection Management and Preservation, Office of Archival Management, at GPO's Central Office in Washington, DC.The primary function of this section is to perform archive management for in-scope tangible and electronic Federal information… Read More

GPO is releasing monthly statistics on the activities of Statistics for  May 2010 activites of the FDLP and the Cataloging and Indexing Program have been released. Read More