By spotlighting the expert services and contributions of our depositories, we share in the strengths and innovations of our partners and help promote the essential American service that is the Federal Depository Library Program.

GPO and Cornell will apply lessons learned from this pilot project to find ways of providing public openness to government documents. This information will be shared with members of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).

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GPO's Mike Wash talks with Federal News Radio about the agency's Open Government Initiative pilot with Cornell University.

These efforts by employees ensured this job for President Barack Obama was completed on time. GPO employees also produced and delivered the Congressional Record and the Federal Register.

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By spotlighting the expert services and contributions of our depositories, we share in the strengths and innovations of our partners and help promote the essential American service that is the Federal Depository Library Program.

AdNotes began in 1980 to inform the depository library community of policies, procedures, and news relating to the Federal Depository Library Program. It was first published in paper and and distributed to all libraries in regular depository shipments, along with an annual microfiche cumulation.

The final issue of AdNotes, which covers from September-December 2009, is available on the FDLP Desktop.

Historical editions of AdNotes (1996 through 2009), including the searchable cumulative table of contents, are archived in PDF format in the FDLP Desktop’s file repository.

GPO would like to commend Marian MacGilvray (an Administrative Librarian from GPO's Office of Education and Outreach and recent retiree) for her meticulous work as the editor of AdNotes during the past 30 years. GPO applauds Marian for her extraordinary efforts in making AdNotes such a success and an essential resource for all Federal Depository librarians.

Mr. Tapella was in Iowa to give the keynote address at the “Printing Royale – 25th Anniversary Gallery of Printing Excellence Banquet”, hosted by the Printing Industries of the Midlands and the Midwest Printing and Graphics Association. The event was part of a nationwide celebration of International Printing Week, which is an annual celebration to develop public awareness of the printing/graphic arts industry. The week long celebration coincided with Benjamin Franklin’s birthday, January 17th.

tapella-desmoines 0|img1.png| |(from left to right) Public Printer Bob Tapella with John Edwards, Associate Dean for Information Resources and Technology; Director Law Library and Professor of Law; Julie Thomas, Technical Service Librarian and Associate Professor of Law Librarians; and Kathy Bowen, Technical Administration Assistant. They are pictured with the bronze statue of Dwight D. Opperman, distinguished alumni and the Law Library's founder.| 0|img2.png| |(from left to right) Rod Henshaw, Dean of Cowles Library; Liga Briedis, Depository Coordinator; and Bob Tapella, Public Printer, U.S. Government Printing Office. They are pictured in front of the traveling Abraham Lincoln exhibit, in Cowles Library's newly renovated reading room. ||

An in-depth review of all records within WTN was performed to remove duplicate entries and correct miscellaneous errors. In addition, a final bulk batch of records (totaling 175) was uploaded on January 7, 2010. All updates will now be made to the Web-based system. Subscribe to the WTN RSS feed and be notified as changes occur.

Training videos are being developed that supplement the information on the WTN help page. Moreover, community suggestions and feedback received during the beta period have been reviewed and are currently under development.

As these features are activated, announcements will be made through the FDLP Desktop.

After examining the log files, GPO has determined that its PURL referral statistical reporting process was indeed correct based on the definition of a referral. A referral is the URL of a previous item which led to this request; however, after examining the log files and talking with members of the depository library community, a new solution has evolved to report PURL referrals.

As we investigated the PURL system log files, it was determined that a majority of our traffic had no referrer. The referrer field is an optional part of the HTTP request that is sent by a browser to a Web server. There are many reasons why our traffic logs would not contain referral information, including:

• Requests originate from a proxy server that filters referrals
• Browsers are not passing referrers or set not to pass referrers by users
• PURLs are being accessed from browser bookmarks
• PURLs are being accessed from links within email

Based on our examination of the logs and understanding of the evolution of Internet technologies, GPO has modified its PURL referral parsing script to examine statistics based on the remotehost in order to determine if the request contains either a referrer and/or user-agent. If neither is detected, these requests are considered to be a link validator and ignored. GPO recognizes that there will be ro(bots) that have a referrer and remotehost and will, therefore, be included in our statistical output. We are asking libraries to identify their bots when totaling figures for their institution.

GPO will use the modified PURL referral method for future reporting. Files will be disseminated in comma separated value (csv) format in the file repository. Libraries will be responsible for extracting their institution’s click-throughs from the domain/IP list contained in the csv.

More information on PURLs can be found in Linking to Federal Resources Using Persistent Uniform Resource Locators (PURLs).

Currently, the CFR is available from 2007 to present, and volumes dating back to 2000 will be added over the next few months.

The CFR in XML is also available from the Government’s new site for Government data: DATA.gov.

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By spotlighting the expert services and contributions of our depositories, we share in the strengths and innovations of our partners and help promote the essential American service that is the Federal Depository Library Program.

• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (1991 to 2005)
• Code of Federal Regulations (2007 to 2009)
• Precedents of the United States House of Representatives (as part of the GPO Federal Publications collection)

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There are major revisions to Chapter 7 (Public Access Assessments) and Chapter 11 (Collaborative Efforts). Chapter 7 was revised and renamed to reflect an emphasis on depository cooperation and Public Access Assessments. Chapter 11 was revised and renamed to bring greater focus on partnerships.

All depository coordinators are advised to review these chapters for changes that may affect their depository operations.

The Handbook is integrated into the FDLP Desktop and will be updated as necessary based on changes in the Program and community input. Users will need to consult the change log in Appendix F to determine all the revisions made to the Handbook.

The Handbook can now be viewed as HTML pages, or users can create a PDF copy of individual chapters by simply clicking the PDF icon at the top of each page.

The date that each chapter was created and last revised is also now readily available to users. These dates appear on the top of each HTML page and are included in any PDF versions created by the user. Since the Handbook is now an integrating resource, users should take note of the revision dates on each chapter and compare them to any PDF copies that may have previously been printed to be sure the most current version is being consulted.

Mr. Tapella visited with Ellen Dunlap, President of AAS, David Whitesell, Curator of Books, Thomas Knoles, and Marcus A. McCorison Librarian (pictured with portrait of founder Isaiah Thomas). During the visit the Public Printer learned about the founder of the AAS, Isaiah Thomas, and about the collections and programs of the AAS. The library's collections document the life of America's people from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. To learn more about the origins and holdings of this specialized research library, visit their Web site.

1. If your library has a .edu, .gov, .mil, or .us domain extension, you may gain access to the database without a login and password. Please be advised that the URL for this access has changed to: http://www7.ncdc.noaa.gov/IPS .
2. If your library is accessing this resource through the depository username and password, nothing has changed. The URL is still the same. The username and password are also still the same.

The National Climatic Data Center Online Document Library is one of the Federal databases available at no fee to libraries in the Federal Depository Library Program. More about this resource is available here.