Notable Numbers

GPO’s Library Services & Content Management contributes to and supports four statutory programs:

• The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP)
• The Cataloging & Indexing Program (C&I)
• The International Exchange Service (IES)
• The By-Law Program

Notable numbers provides a snapshot of the work done to support these programs.

• There are 1,097 libraries in the FDLP.
• In FDLP eXchange, there are 79 libraries offering in 25 regions.
• There are 81 Official GPO Partners:
  • 53 Preservation Stewards
  • 1 Digital Preservation Steward
  • 1 Cataloging and Metadata Contributor
  • 17 Digital Access Partners
  • 9 Digital Content Contributors
• The FDLP Academy has hosted 708 webinars, with more than 94,500 combined registrants.
• FDLP conferences and events have hosted 13,496 virtual registrants since 2013.
• GPO has increased the size of the FDLP Web Archive collection to 58 TB, with over 626,900,000 URLs crawled.

FY 2024 Statistics (October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2024)

• There have been 55,625,545 successful searches of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP).
• FDLP Resource Guides had more than 128,000 views to the 36 guides offered.
• There have been 503 Congressionally Mandated Reports published to GovInfo from 78 Government authors.

LSCM staff have:

• Distributed 1,729 titles to FDLP libraries.
• Distributed 132,972 copies of materials to FDLP libraries.
• Distributed 1,767 International Exchange Service titles.
• Distributed 10,306 copies of materials to International Exchange Service libraries.
• Added 11,378  new cataloging records to the CGP, of which 8,359 (73%) contained PURLs to full-text publications.
• Checked in 15,141 serial issues to the CGP.
• Created 2,676 new bibliographic records for Serial & Integrated Resource (IR) titles.
• Resolved 5,123 askGPO inquiries.
• Resolved an additional 242 askGPO inquiries related to Congressionally Mandated Reports.
• Processed 592 Congressionally Mandated Reports submitted by Government authors.

Program for Cooperative Cataloging Statistics:

• Authority records:  1,063 authority records created & updated.
  • NACO:   1,045 name authority records created & updated.
  • SACO:  18 subject authority records created & updated.
• BIBCO: 7,831 records created.
• CONSER:  3,908 records created and updated.
  • Newly authenticated CONSER records: 2,554.
  • Updated records: 1,354.

GitHub Statistics:

CGP Data Dashboard

In March 2022, LSCM’s Federal Depository Support Systems (FDSS) and Library Technical Services (LTS) collaborated on the planning, design, and launch of the CGP Data Dashboard. The purpose of the dashboard is to visualize various aspects of the bibliographic records for Federal Government information products in the CGP. The dashboard is the start of our exploration of the CGP as a data set. LSCM plans to use CGP data to tell stories about Federal Government information, the FDLP, and LSCM’s work.

For the first iteration of the dashboard, LTS extracted the following data points from the 7,700 records cataloged by LTS staff members from July through December 2021:

• Chronological coverage
  • Based on the publication dates in the MARC 264 fields.
• Geographic coverage
  • Based on the geographic area codes in the MARC 043 fields.
  • Links to the CGP records in the dashboard map.
• Issuing agencies
  • Based on the Superintendent of Documents Classification agency classes in the MARC 086 fields.
• Unreported publications
  • Government information products that are not discoverable in the CGP.
  • For more details, please see the Reporting Publications page.
  • Based on the local codes in the MARC 922 fields.

In December 2022, LTS refreshed the dashboard with data from the approximately 8,800 records cataloged by LTS staff members from January through June 2023. LTS will periodically repeat this process and add new data points.

To maximize the size of each dashboard box, click on the circular icon in the upper right-hand corner. To minimize the box, click on the icon again.

Please send us your feedback and questions about dashboard by submitting an inquiry in the “Cataloging/Metadata (Policy and Records)” category via askGPO.