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GPO is releasing monthly statistics on the activities of Statistics for  January 2011 activites of the FDLP and the Cataloging and Indexing Program have been released. Read More

Public Printer of the United States William J. Boarman and I would like to invite you to join us in San Antonio April 4-6 for the Spring 2011 Meeting of the Depository Library Council (DLC). We very much look forward to our first meeting with members of the DLC and the library community to explore new developments, to network with our partners in the Federal Depository… Read More

The President's Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2012 is now available from the United States Government Printing Office (GPO). The public can search or browse the budget, which is accessible from GPO’s Federal Digital System. FY 2012 Budget documents are available in PDF, with many of the tables also available for separate viewing and downloading as… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has launched a Facebook page that features announcements, press releases, agency job listings, photos, videos, and a link to the award winning Government Book Talk blog. GPO joins the White House, National Archives & Records Administration, Library of Congress, and other Federal agencies on Facebook.The new Facebook page is… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is shining the spotlight this month on Trinity College Library, a private, liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Designated in 1895, the Library has more than a century of service in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). Recently, the library staff performed a thorough review of their collections and services,… Read More

Now that FDsys is GPO's official system of record, the U.S. Government Printing Office reviewed all PURL records to determine which PURLs needed to be updated to point to FDsys resources rather than GPO Access resources. Consequently, PURLs with the following URLs have been modified:http://www.gpoaccess.gov/*http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/*http://www.access.gpo.gov/*A… Read More

Bill Boarman, 26th Public Printer of the United States, at his Swearing-in Ceremony.President Barack Obama has sent the renomination of Public Printer William J. “Bill” Boarman to the U.S. Senate. The President appointed Boarman on December 29, 2010, during a recess of the Senate. Boarman has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Government Printing… Read More

Although STAT-USA/Internet closed on September 30, 2010, depository libraries can still access U.S. export and import data through USA Trade® Online free of charge. USA Trade® Online was a key source of STAT-USA data.USA Trade® Online is handled by the Foreign Trade Division of the Census Bureau. All access methods have been successfully transferred over from STAT-USA to… Read More

Published by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report investigates the causes of the financial and economic crisis of 2007-2010.On May 20, 2009, President Obama signed into law an Act that established the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the… Read More

The Government Printing Office and the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida (UF Libraries) have partnered to provide public access to the digital collection of Panama Canal Commission (PCC) and Isthmian Canal Commission (ICC) publications housed at the UF Libraries.The UF Libraries have cataloged and are working to digitize publications in their… Read More