Thank you for making the 2021 Federal Depository Library Conference a success. During the three-day event, attendees: Enjoyed welcoming remarks from GPO’s Director Hugh Halpern and Superintendent of Documents Laurie Hall, as well as Depository Library Council Chair Will Stringfellow. Enjoyed a keynote presentation from Mr. Crosby Kemper, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Participated in collaborative, informative, and interactive sess...

Through participation in the Federal Depository Library Program, Federal depository libraries may gain no-fee access to agency subscription services. Your library will need to sign up for these services exclusive to the FDLP. Access methods and terms of service vary from service to service. Two services are currently available. They are: Foreign Trade online resource Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) In order to ensure timely processing of ...

The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is a database containing non-classified Presidential directives, policy, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources related to homeland security. Additional information about this service is contained in a presentation, " Terrorism and Security: What Information is Out There? (4.53 MB) " by Greta Marlatt at the Fall 2007 Federal Depository Library Conference. Library Access Methods ...

Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is an online service of the United States Judiciary that provides case and docket information from Federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts. The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC), and the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) are working collaboratively to implement an education program that will result in greater public awareness of and acce...

Cataloging Record Distribution Program records are those created through GPO’s Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and Cataloging and Indexing Program (C&I). About GPO Cataloging GPO cataloging data consists of MARC records for U.S. Government publications published by all three branches of the Federal Government, including: Books (print and online versions) Serials Maps Websites E-books Microfiche Audiovisual materials These materi...

The FDLP Coordinator Certificate Program (CCP) is on hold as GPO transitions the FDLP framework to a digital model. Registration for future iterations of the FDLP Coordinator Certificate Program will be announced via FDLP News once content is updated to reflect the new program model. In the meantime, recorded webcasts derived from the CCP curriculum are available via the FDLP Depository Operations Training Series. This series consists of 8 video recordings...

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...