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The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) wishes to clarify how IP authentication is being implemented for access to the Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL). Depository libraries eligible for IP authentication to HSDL may include the IP addresses attached to all their publicly accessible computers regardless of whether a log in is required. Staff from HSDL will… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is pleased to announce recent enhancements made to the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. These enhancements include: Basic Search pageThe addition of a navigation bar to increase the number of search options available from this page and reduce the number of clicks needed to progress to more advanced searchesNew link to… Read More

GPO is pleased to announce the renewal of its partnership with the Troy H. Middleton Library of Louisiana State University through 2010. Originally signed in 2001, this partnership provides for Federal depository library access to the List of Federal Agency Internet Sites Web site.  Based on the U.S. Government Manual, the List directs users to the Web sites of active… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is pleased to announce the renewal of its partnership with the Kelvin Smith Library of Case Western Reserve University and the Census Bureau through 2011. Originally signed in 2002, this partnership provides permanent public access to the mirror site of Census 2000 ASCII text files on the Case Western Reserve University Web site… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and Oklahoma State University (OSU) are pleased to announce that a redesign of the Browse Topics Web site is underway. This redesign continues GPO's and OSU's successful partnership to create topical pathfinders to electronic Federal Government information. The new Browse Topics Web site: Includes an updated list of topical… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has partnered with Southern Methodist University (SMU) Central University Libraries to provide permanent public access to a digital collection of more than 300 U.S. Government publications distributed by GPO during World War II. "Giving the public permanent access to this historic digital collection is an example of GPO’s… Read More

GPO is pleased to announce the renewal of its partnership with the Richard J. Daley Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago through 2012. Originally signed in 1997, the partnership provides permanent public access to content in the Department of State Foreign Affairs (DOSFAN) Electronic Research Collection, a digital library of electronically archived information… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has partnered with The University of Illinois at Chicago's (UIC) Daley Library to provide virtual reference service to the public.UIC is working with almost twenty other academic, public, and state Federal depository libraries to provide chat and e-mail service through Government Information Online: Ask a Librarian (GIO). GIO is… Read More

It has recently come to the attention of Library Services and Content Management that depository libraries have been receiving microfiche shipments of the Code of Federal Regulations with no shipping lists included. We have been working with the new contractor, National Archive Publishing Company (NAPC), to rectify the situation. NAPC has included the missing shipping… Read More

GPO recently received several documents from the Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service for distribution to libraries in the FDLP. The Library of Congress has made significant changes to the suite of titles in the MARC 21 series (Authority data, Bibliographic data, Holdings data, Classification data, and Community information) which will impact the… Read More