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Beta testing of the NTIS database is completed. NTIS is ready to expand access to "DARTS: Depository Access to Reports, Technical & Scientific" to the rest of the depository community. DARTS provides access to bibliographic records for approximately 240,000 publications from 1964-2000 and links to online content.A validation form must be signed by your library… Read More

In order to comply with an amendment to the Standing Rules of the Senate, GPO is updating the Conference Reports Web page, effective on the morning of November 9, 2007.Paragraph nine of Rule XXVIII of the Standing Rules of the Senate now states:"9. (a)(1) It shall not be in order to vote on the adoption of a report of a committee of conference unless such report has been… Read More

Recently, there have been some policy questions in regards to how the decision is made at GPO regarding selection of a publication to be distributed to all libraries under Item Number 0556-C or 1004-E. Any decision regarding what format a document is to be distributed to the program in is made following the guidelines of Superintendent of Documents Policy 301, … Read More

The 2007 Federal Depository Library Conference and Fall Depository Library Council Meeting was held at the Doubletree Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. Librarians from throughout the community gathered to network and share their expertise with their colleagues. Geoffry Swindells called the meeting to order as the new Chair of the Depository Library Council. Along with him,… Read More

The State Department has informed Library Services and Content Management of an error in a volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States. The error is in:S 1.1:969-76/V.17Item No.: 0872-BTitle: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969 - 1976, Volume XVII; China, 1969 - 1972Shipping List No.: 2007-0032-PShipping List Date: October 30, 2006The error is on the… Read More

A new Web page designed to keep libraries informed of weekly depository shipments has been released. The page can be accessed directly from the FDLP Desktop homepage from the "Shipping Lists This Week" module on the far right column.Library Services & Content Management will use the page to keep libraries informed of the shipping lists processed and distributed each… Read More

Middendorf-Kredell Branch Library, in O'Fallon, Missouri, has been named the 2007 Federal Depository Library of the Year. Each year, the U.S. Government Printing Office selects one Federal depository library for its outstanding service to the American public and the promotion of Federal Government information. Public Printer Robert C. Tapella presented the award to Deputy… Read More

Read Ric Davis' speech from the Fall Depository Library Council meeting and conference in Arlington, Virginia. Read More

The U.S. Senate confirmed and President George W. Bush signed the commission to make Robert C. Tapella the nation’s Public Printer.“It is a deep honor to become the 25th Public Printer of the United States and lead the talented men and women of GPO as we continue to fulfill our mission to keep America informed,” said Public Printer Robert C. Tapella.Tapella has been… Read More

Libraries are reminded that all new items added to item selection profiles during the 2007 Annual Update Cycle are now active. You should begin receiving these items with the first shipping list for FY08 which is currently being prepared for shipment. The last shipping lists issued for FY07 are as follows:Electronic2007-0023-EMicrofiche2007-0270-MPaper2007-0416… Read More