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Library Shelfie Day is Wednesday, January 24, 2024, and GPO wants to showcase your library staff and your ‘FDLP shelfies.’ Snap a few photos you and your colleagues working in your library. Share your photos with us prior to the 24th, and your library could be featured on GPO’s social media and on FDLP.gov. Have some fun with Library Shelfie Day, and don’t forget… Read More

The Superintendent of Documents released the PRELIMINARY library allocations of the titles that will be distributed in print to Federal depository libraries. The data is presented in a spreadsheet with tabs by Library, by Title, by NCSA and Library Type by Title, and Maps by Title. Filters are provided, which allow users to customize the… Read More

The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP), including GPO’s MetaLib, will undergo routine maintenance. Start Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 8:00 p.m. (EST) End Date: Thursday, January 18, 2024, 6:00 a.m. (EST) During this maintenance period, you may experience brief, intermittent downtime. We apologize for the inconvenience and… Read More

New Electronic Titles (NET) are now available for December 2023. These files are accessible from the New Titles section of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). Read More

This message has been cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication. The FDLP Academy recently presented insightful sessions about library services and U.S. Government resources for and about diverse populations. The speakers are subject-matter experts from the Federal depository library community, GPO, and Federal agencies. Below is a list of the webinar recordings: … Read More

Register to attend the live training webinar, "Health Statistics on the Web." Date: Thursday, February 15, 2024 Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (EST)   Recording and closed captioning are available. All webinars are free of charge. Speakers: Katie Pierce Farrier, Data… Read More

GPO has added a new collection of legal resources to the CGP on the GitHub Repository. The Legal Publications Collection is divided into two files: one for titles available in tangible format and another for titles available in online format. The tangible record set was created from the Print Distribution Titles (PDT) list that circulated during the shift to a digital… Read More

The U.S. Government Publishing Office’s (GPO) GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government, hit a record number of retrievals in 2023 — 1.15 billion. This is a 32% increase from the number of retrievals in 2022 and a 215% increase from the number of retrievals in 2018. The most retrieved collection of… Read More

Library Shelfie Day is Wednesday, January 24, 2024, and GPO wants to showcase your library staff and your ‘FDLP shelfies.’ Snap a few photos of you and your colleagues working in your library. Share your photos with us prior to the 24th, and your library could be featured on GPO’s social media and on FDLP.gov. Have some fun with Library Shelfie Day, and don’t forget to… Read More

Starting on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, the FDLP Resource Guides Team will update the friendly URLs of all resource guides. To minimize broken links of replaced URLs, every guide’s homepage now has its permalink information. If you are currently linking to or sharing the guides using the friendly URLs, we recommend updating them with their permalinks. For questions or… Read More