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The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director Hugh Nathanial Halpern testified before the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress today about GPO’s process of producing bills for use by the House and Senate. Halpern offered insights about the process from two unique perspectives — as the leader of the agency that has been responsible for this job… Read More

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director Hugh Nathanial Halpern presented GPO’s FY 2023 appropriations request before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations. Halpern requested appropriations in the amount of $130,904,000, a 5.4 percent increase over GPO’s FY 2022 appropriation. This marks just the second time in a decade that GPO has… Read More

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is performing scheduled maintenance on the FDLP eXchange. Start Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 5:00 p.m. (EDT) End Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 8:00 p.m. (EDT) Total Duration: 3 hours The site should be accessible during maintenance, but certain functions may not be available. During the period, users are… Read More

Libraries that added item numbers to their Depository Selection Information Management System (DSIMS) selection cart will note that they were activated in their item selection profile over the weekend of April 24, 2022. New tangible format selections will begin distribution as content is published under those item numbers. Some titles may have to be shipped short until… Read More

GPO recently distributed the publication A Century of Honor: A Commemorative Guide to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This publication is now being offered as a Special Selection Offer. Libraries not selecting item number 0344-F may request to receive the publication. Cataloging and distribution information: Title: A century of honor: a commemorative guide to… Read More

U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director Hugh Nathanial Halpern announces the appointment of five new members to the Depository Library Council (DLC). DLC members advise the GPO Director on policy matters relating to the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and access to U.S. Government information. In addition to experience working in various types of… Read More

In March 2022, Library Services and Content Management’s (LSCM’s) new authority control contractor, MARCIVE, updated and enhanced most of the bibliographic records in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). All of the following Library of Congress Subject Headings have been replaced as follows: Aliens > Noncitizens Illegal aliens >… Read More

"Exploring Cataloging of Federal Government Documents at GPO" is now available for viewing.  Speaker Donna Kraemer; Supervisory Librarian, Library Technical Services, Library Services and Content Management, U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO)  Learning outcomes: GPO presents a three-part webcast on basic GPO cataloging. In Part One,… Read More

Library Services and Content Management (LSCM) has posted a new set of all MARC bibliographic records (1,022,882) in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) as of March 30, 2022, on GitHub. Brief bibliographic records, also known as brief bibs, are not included in the files. The records are available in UTF-8 in the cataloging-records-all-cgp-utf8 repository and… Read More

Libraries have until midnight, Friday, April 22, to add item numbers to their library’s selection profile using DSIMS. This process normally only takes place at the end of September. It is available to 1) give microfiche selectors an opportunity to add the paper equivalent of their microfiche titles to their profiles, and 2) to give libraries an opportunity to add… Read More