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GPO recently received several documents from the Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service for distribution to libraries in the FDLP. The Library of Congress has made significant changes to the suite of titles in the MARC 21 series (Authority data, Bibliographic data, Holdings data, Classification data, and Community information) which will impact the… Read More

GPO has just received the following documents for distribution to all libraries in the FDLP:110-1 S. Doc., First Lady Bird Johnson 1912-2007 Memorial Tribute the 110th Congress of the United StatesY 1.1/2:SERIAL 15075Y 1.1/3:110-8110-61 H. Doc. Gerald R. Ford Late President of the United States, Memorial Services in the Congress of the United States and TributesY 1.1/2… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is pleased to announce the launch of an enhanced version of the Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects. All listings from the previous iteration have been incorporated into the new site, which is available at: http://registry.fdlp.gov. The enhanced Registry provides the ability to: Browse… Read More

The Federal depository library community has expressed interest in participating in GPO’s efforts to process Web harvested publications. In order to determine how best to utilize the depository libraries offer of assistance, GPO will undertake a demonstration project with 10 depositories. The volunteer depositories will be asked to either assist in locating the missing… Read More

Public Printer Robert C. Tapella announced the appointment of five new members to the Depository Library Council: David Cismowski, Carlene Engstrom, Sarah G. Holterhoff, Justin Otto, and Suzanne Sears. “I am pleased to welcome this talented incoming class of Council members, I look forward to their advice as GPO continues to work with the library community to provide free… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Naval Postgraduate School are pleased to announce their recent partnership to provide access to the Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL). HSDL is a database of over 50,000 non-classified Presidential directives, policy and national strategy documents, as well as specialized resources related to Homeland Security… Read More

In light of recent communications regarding authentication of patron identification on library computers, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) would like to take this opportunity to address some of the common security issues we are seeing more frequently in depository libraries.The overall goal of the depository program is to provide the public no-fee access to U.S… Read More

Federal depository libraries are reminded the small package delivery contractor changed in March to UPS. If your library still has any of the FedEx labels previously sent to return stock to Depository Distribution, please destroy those labels. Depository Distribution no longer has a Federal Express account for this service. If you are still in need of a return label,… Read More

The contract for program 562-S, the conversion of Congressional Hearings, Committee Prints, Reports, Documents and Hearings to microfiche, has just been awarded to Data Management Internationale (DMI), of New Castle, Delaware. Now that the contract has been awarded, libraries will soon see the resumption of microfiche shipments for this group of publications. Please send… Read More

Effective immediately, GPO will cease using cutter numbers on the Hearings issued by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (House):SuDoc Y 4.G 74/7:Item nos. 1016-A (P), 1016-B (MF)GPO will use the serial number that is on the Hearing as the suffix for the SuDoc class. This new procedure is consistent with the classification numbers assigned to other… Read More