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This month the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has chosen to spotlight Purdue University Library, a library that provides outstanding reference services for library users and librarians alike. Purdue University Library in West Lafayette, Indiana, reaches out to people through numerous means such as electronic discussion lists and online reference services. They… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is making a change to cataloging practice effective August 1, 2009. The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), Bibliographic Cooperative (BIBCO) has recently modified its cataloging practice for electronic resource monographs LTIS has evaluated the change in practice and has decided to adopt the BIBCO requirements for… Read More

Government Computer News (GCN), in its July 27, 2009 issue, named GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) one of the “10 Great Government Web Sites”. GCN rated the sites on how well they have incorporated interactive tools that serve the public and how well they support President Obama's goal to increase Government transparency.GPO launched FDsys earlier this year. This… Read More

It is the custom of the Public Printer, Bob Tapella, to visit Federal depository libraries in conjunction with other GPO business travel. In early July, Mr. Tapella had the occasion to visit Birmingham Public Library (BPL) in Alabama where he met with depository library staff as well as the current and former library directors. While there, Bob congratulated Irene S. … Read More

Public Printer Bob Tapella has announced the appointment of five new members to the Depository Library Council (DLC). They are:James R. Jacobs is a Government Information Librarian at Stanford University in California. Jacobs is a specialist in digital technologies and information access in the digital world. Jacobs has also helped found several organizations including… Read More

Houston Public Library's downtown branch (Central Library) is celebrating 125 years as a Federal depository library on July 18, 2009 with an open house and reception. Joe McClane, Manager, Content Acquisitions representing GPO, will be presenting the award acknowledging the Library's dedication and will be giving a talk about their collection, which includes some 900,000… Read More

LSCM staff is continuing to transcribe and convert to MARC 21 the bibliographic metadata contained on the cards in GPO’s historic shelflist. The first batch of converted records was loaded into the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) in May. Additional records will be made available as they are converted.The records are identifiable by the phrase "Historic… Read More

GPO is releasing monthly statistics on the activities of Statistics for  June 2009 activites of the FDLP and the Cataloging and Indexing Program have been released. Read More

GPO wants to hear about the digitization projects underway at your library, or about any ideas your library may have for a digitization project, that include Federal publications. It is GPO’s goal to work with members of the Federal depository library community, Federal agencies, and other institutions to digitize and make accessible the tangible legacy collection of U.S… Read More

In continuation with U.S. Government Printing Office's (GPO) commitment to promote the innovative services and other work depository libraries are performing for their users, we are pleased to announce the depository library spotlight for the month of July 2009 is the Johnson County Library. Located in Overland Park, Kansas, Johnson County Library is the first public… Read More