This is a step by step guide to demonstrate how the Serial Set is bound. ...

Iowa City brews some excellent coffee in several independently-owned coffee houses. I frequent them all and have a favorite at each. Some coffee shops brew by the cup; one has two lines: one for coffee and the other for gelato—a genius combination. Each assigns enticing names for their coffees and uses creative ways to designate which brew station will produce your cup of Joe. This is where my idea began for merging the "think drink" daily ritual with Constitution Day. ...

The United States Government is the largest publisher in the world. Every day the U.S. Government issues congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, studies, and more on a variety of topics. The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) was established by Congress to ensure that the American public has access to its Government's information. The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) is administered by the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO). ...

Women have always worked for the Government Printing Office, but until the 20th century few left an individual mark upon its history. One exception to this rule was Adelaide R. Hasse, the first Superintendent of Documents librarian. In her brief 2-year career at GPO, she almost singlehandedly set up the documents library and devised the classification system that, in an expanded form, is still in use today. Her years here show what an intelligent and strong-minded young ...

At the request of the Federal Depository Library community, the Government Publishing Office, Library Services & Content Services, Library Technical Information Services (LTIS) staff has formulated a policy for creating separate records for every manifestation of a document. This policy follows an internal review of the current approach of single record cataloging. Below is LTIS’ proposed policy for metadata creation for individual formats. Background In the 19...

Library Services and Content Management (LSCM) is making available, free of charge, bibliographic records for the online versions of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publications on the CGP on GitHub repository. GitHub is a web-based computer source code sharing and publishing service. A GitHub account is not required for downloading the record sets. The NIST records were ingested into FDsys, now govinfo, in 2016. LSCM will release g...

With an increasing number of digital reproductions being created by Federal agencies and by GPO and GPO's partners, GPO's Library Technical Information Services (LTIS) has formulated procedures for cataloging digital reproductions of a tangible document. These procedures were developed following a cataloging community-wide review of digital reproduction cataloging, and will likely experience changes as the cataloging community evolves its views. Application GPO wil...

In an effort to provide Federal depository libraries and the general public with more timely access to bibliographic records in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) (http://catalog.gpo.gov), Library Services and Content Management (LS&CM) recently began a Library Technical Information Services (LTIS) internal pilot project to develop standards for the creation of brief bibliographic records for monographs. The goals of the project are to: Test poss...

The Superintendent of Documents proposed discontinuing the printed United States Congressional Serial Set Catalog (Serial Set Catalog) after production of the 105th Congress (1997-1998). The online Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) with enhanced functionality will replace the printed Serial Set Catalog. To this end, Library Technical Information staff (LTIS) staff evaluated the cataloging policy for Congressional Serial Set documents. These procedur...