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DOSFAN Partnership Renewed
July 02, 2008
GPO is pleased to announce the renewal of its partnership with the Richard J. Daley Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago through 2012. Originally signed in 1997, the partnership provides permanent public access to content in the Department of State Foreign Affairs (DOSFAN) Electronic Research Collection, a digital library of electronically archived information…
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"Point of Need" Services
July 02, 2008
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has partnered with The University of Illinois at Chicago's (UIC) Daley Library to provide virtual reference service to the public.UIC is working with almost twenty other academic, public, and state Federal depository libraries to provide chat and e-mail service through Government Information Online: Ask a Librarian (GIO). GIO is…
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Microfiche shipping lists
June 23, 2008
It has recently come to the attention of Library Services and Content Management that depository libraries have been receiving microfiche shipments of the Code of Federal Regulations with no shipping lists included. We have been working with the new contractor, National Archive Publishing Company (NAPC), to rectify the situation. NAPC has included the missing shipping…
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Item and Classification Changes to Library of Congress' MARC 21 Titles
June 23, 2008
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…
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Memorial Tributes to Lady Bird Johnson and Gerald Ford
June 23, 2008
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…
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Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects Relaunched
June 18, 2008
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:
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Web Harvesting Demonstration Project and Library Volunteers, Part II
June 17, 2008
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…
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New Members to Depository Library Council Named
June 16, 2008
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…
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Access to the Homeland Security Digital Library
June 04, 2008
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…
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Computer Security Issues in Depository Libraries
June 03, 2008
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…
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