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 1,081 libraries in the FDLP.
• In FDLP eXchange, there are 83 libraries offering in 25 regions.
• There are 107 Official GPO Partners:
  • 78 Preservation Stewards
  • 1 Digital Preservation Steward
  • 1 Cataloging and Metadata Contributor
  • 17 Digital Access Partners
  • 10 Digital Content Contributors
• The FDLP Academy has hosted 744 webinars, with more than 100,300 combined registrants and presented 185 recorded webcasts.
• FDLP conferences and events have hosted over 19,000 virtual registrants since 2013.
• GPO has increased the size of the FDLP Web Archive collection to 69.5 TB, with over 814,000,000 URLs crawled.
• There have been 1,209 Congressionally Mandated Reports published to GovInfo from 74 Government authors.

FY 2026 Statistics (October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026)

• There were 113,533,492 successful searches of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP).
• FDLP Resource Guides had more than 71,313 views to the 35 guides offered.
• The FDLP Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL) Usage Tool recorded 90,453,887 information retrievals.
• 15,479 PURLs were created and 59,333 were modified.

LSCM staff:

• Distributed 1,199 titles to FDLP libraries.
• Distributed 47,335 copies of materials to FDLP libraries.
• Distributed 3,353 print copies of materials to International Exchange Service libraries.
• Added 13,485 new cataloging records to the CGP, of which 10,855 (81%) contained PURLs to full-text publications.
• Checked in 3,042 serial issues to the CGP.
• Created 1,523 new bibliographic records for Serial & Integrated Resource (IR) titles.
• Transferred 718 volumes to Preservation Steward Partnership collections. 
• Resolved 3,476 askGPO inquiries.

Program for Cooperative Cataloging Statistics:

• Authority records: 879 authority records created & updated.
  • NACO: 863  name authority records created & updated.
  • SACO: 16 subject authority records created & updated.
• BIBCO: 7,852 records created.
• CONSER: 1,981 records created and updated.
  • Newly authenticated CONSER records: 1,175
  • Updated records: 806

GitHub Statistics:

*Includes multiple copies of the same records in different files