Building on activities already performed in libraries, Program participants will develop training materials and conduct training sessions. Materials will be housed in a centralized location on the FDLP Desktop and be available for all to use and to adapt to meet local needs. The Program will be open to Federal depository libraries, public libraries, and public law libraries. Libraries participating in PACER: Access and Education Program will be exempt from the first $50 of quarterly usage charges.

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. PACER: Access and Education Program is a collaborative effort of the FDLP, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC), and the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). It was established to increase the proficiency of public users of PACER and to increase greater awareness of and access to the service as well as provide new content for the FDLP.

If you want more information or are interested in participating in the Program, review the documentation and register by using the "Questions about the PACER: Access and Education Program" form in PACER: Access and Education Program.

Though this pilot will cease, both the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and NTIS are still interested in exploring other partnership possibilities to increase access to the Government’s scientific and technical report literature and eliminate possible duplicative efforts.

Read more here.

Wage Determinations OnLine (WDOL) is the official Federal Acquisitions Regulation (FAR) mandated Web site that contains both current and archived wage determinations. Users can search for a determination or browse by state and county. Archived determinations are available from 2000 forward.

Permanent public access to the Davis Bacon Wage Determinations is ensured through the partnership; therefore, GPO’s Davis Bacon site will redirect users to the WDOL site.

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Under the partnership, the UM Libraries are sending the bibliographic records for publications in 13 Forest Service Superintendent of Documents numbers (SuDoc) to GPO in batches. Following the procedures in the “Cooperative Cataloging Partnerships Guidelines”, GPO staff are performing any required authority work as well as verify the SuDoc number. If UM has supplied a SuDoc number in the record that is valid (i.e. a series classes), but GPO records indicates a different class (i.e. General Publications class) was assigned when the publications was originally distributed, both SuDoc numbers will be recorded in separate 086 fields. In some cases, GPO may not be able to determine whether or not a publication was distributed to depository libraries. When this occurs, a 500 note will be added to the record that reads “As of (date), GPO could not validate the distribution status of this title for the FDLP”.

Once all the required work on a batch of records is completed, they will be available through the CGP and the Record Distribution Project.  The records will be identified with a 955 MARC field that will read “Cataloging Partner; University of Montana”.

GPO appreciates the collaborative contribution made by UM Libraries to increase access to historic U.S. Government publications through this new partnership.

Libraries can still access the NCDC database while NOAA works on a new password solution by sending an email to NNDC.Subscriptions@noaa.gov with the following information:

• Organization Name
• Library Name
• Library Number
• Coordinator Name
• Daytime Telephone Number

The UF Libraries have cataloged and are working to digitize publications in their collections from the Panama Canal Commission (PCC) and its preceding institution, the Isthmian Canal Commission (ICC). This includes publications contributed to the UF Libraries by the Panama Canal Museum (PCM).

Under the partnership, the UF Libraries will be sharing bibliographic records for the print and digitized PCC and ICC publications with GPO. The records will be made available through the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) following the procedures in the "Cooperative Cataloging Partnerships Guidelines" and will contain a Persistent URL (PURL) to link users directly to the content hosted by the UF Libraries. The records will be identified with a 955 MARC field that will read "GPO Historic Collection; University of Florida".

The UF Libraries serve as the regional depository library for Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

GPO appreciates the collaborative contribution made by UF Libraries to increase access to historic U.S. Government publications through this new partnership.

STAT-USA has a brief message informing users of the shut down on their Web site. Additionally, there is a message from the Director and they are maintaining a page addressing customer concerns.

GPO is working with STAT-USA staff to obtain additional information as it becomes available.

The U.S. Government Printing Office thanks St. Mary's University for their efforts to maintain this valuable resource and looks forward to continuing this successful partnership with the University.

If your library is interested in pursuing its own partnership initiative with the FDLP, information and the application form can be found on the FDLP Desktop under Outreach > Partnerships.

For more information, please see their news release.