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The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) makes available the Congressional Pictorial Directory: 117th Congress on GPO’s govinfo, the one-stop site to information published by the Federal Government. GPO teammates designed and produced the Pictorial Directory, which features a color photograph of each Member of the House of Representatives and Senate. It also details… Read More

Library Shelfie Day is Wednesday, January 26, 2022, and GPO wants to showcase your library staff and their ‘FDLP shelfies.’ Snap a few photos with your Government documents tangible or electronic collection, or if you are working remotely, take a teleworking ‘shelfie.’ Share your photos with us, and your library could be featured on GPO’s social media. Have some fun… Read More

Register to attend the live training webinar, “The Experiment of Employing Females as Clerks Has Been...a Success." Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (Eastern)   Recording and closed captioning are available. All webinars are free of charge. Speaker:… Read More

FDLP eXchange The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is performing scheduled maintenance on the FDLP eXchange this week. Start Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 5:00 p.m. (EST) End Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 8:00 p.m. (EST) Total Duration: 3 hours The site should be accessible during maintenance, but certain functions may not be available… Read More

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) achieved the milestone of nine billion retrievals of Government information since the agency started publishing information online in 1994. Today, govinfo, as the online, trusted digital repository is known, serves as the one-stop site for authentic, published Government information. GPO’s site, www.govinfo.gov, which has been… Read More

The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) and MetaLib will undergo routine maintenance from Wednesday, January 19, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. (EST) through Thursday, January 20, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. (EST). During the maintenance period, these services may experience brief, intermittent downtime. Thank you for your cooperation, and we apologize for the… Read More

New Electronic Titles (NET) are now available for November 2021. These files are accessible from the New Titles section of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). Read More

The 2021 Biennial Survey of Depository Libraries is set to launch on January 26, 2022, and run through March 9, 2022. You can now download a preview of the questions to help you prepare for submitting your responses. Your library director or designee must approve of the library’s responses. Additional information and instructions for completing the live survey will be… Read More

Are you a recently or soon-to-be retired member of the FDLP community? GPO wants to congratulate you on FDLP.gov! Reach out to Library Services & Content Management, and please send us: Your name as you would like it to appear. A photo of yourself for the FDLP.gov homepage. The institution from which you are retiring. The number of years you have worked… Read More

In order to benefit from the resources of Federal depository libraries, the public and researchers must be aware that these valuable information resources exist, as well as where they can receive assistance in using U.S. Government information. What's more, identifying your library as part of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) is one of the requirements all… Read More