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 1,093 libraries in the FDLP.
• In FDLP eXchange, there are 78 libraries offering in 26 regions.
• There are 98 Official GPO Partners:
  • 70 Preservation Stewards
  • 1 Digital Preservation Steward
  • 1 Cataloging and Metadata Contributor
  • 17 Digital Access Partners
  • 9 Digital Content Contributors
• The FDLP Academy has hosted 730 webinars, with more than 98,800 combined registrants and presented 185 recorded webcasts.
• FDLP conferences and events have hosted over 17,000 virtual registrants since 2013.
• GPO has increased the size of the FDLP Web Archive collection to 64.5 TB, with over 722,500,000 URLs crawled.
• There have been 845 Congressionally Mandated Reports published to GovInfo from 74 Government authors.

FY 2025 Statistics (October 1, 2024 – September 30, 2025)

• There were 214,236,978 successful searches of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP).
• FDLP Resource Guides had more than 225,000 views to the 39 guides offered.

LSCM staff:

• Distributed 1,319 titles to FDLP libraries.
• Distributed 42,906 copies of materials to FDLP libraries.
• Distributed 3,303 print and 4,042 microfiche copies of materials to International Exchange Service libraries.
• Added 10,276 new cataloging records to the CGP, of which 7,595 (73%) contained PURLs to full-text publications.
• Checked in 6,656 serial issues to the CGP.
• Created 2,037 new bibliographic records for Serial & Integrated Resource (IR) titles.
• Resolved 4,416 askGPO inquiries.

Program for Cooperative Cataloging Statistics: 

• Authority records: 1,299 authority records created & updated.
  • NACO: 1,284  name authority records created & updated.
  • SACO: 15 subject authority records created & updated.
• BIBCO: 7,904 records created.
• CONSER: 2,374 records created and updated.
  • Newly authenticated CONSER records: 1,374
  • Updated records: 1,000

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.