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The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been informed by Congressional Publishing Services (CPS) that there may be a printing error in the following publication:Title: Keeping Foreign Corruption Out of the United States: Four Case Histories, Volume 1, February 4, 2010 (S. Hrg. 111-540)SuDocs Class: Y 4.G 74/9:S.Hrg.111-540/V.1Item Number: 1037-BShipping List Number:… Read More

Libraries are currently facing many challenges including reduced budgets and staffing, library space repurposed away from bookshelves and, the need to keep pace with the rapid turnover of web based information. Increasing a library’s online emphasis can help respond to these challenges.On Thursday, October 14th, 2010 at 2:00PM EDT, Kathy Bayer, Senior Outreach Librarian… Read More

Making depository collections visible and welcoming can sometimes be a daunting task given staffing shortages and space limitations. Through the innovative promotion of electronic materials and welcoming language on their Web site, Snell Library at Northeastern University makes it look easy.See how they do it by visiting this month's Depository Library Spotlight.By… Read More

A new FDLP Web-based training session titled, "Going Mostly Electronic - Part I: The Basics," is available via OPAL.The presentation is the first in a series on transitioning to a more electronic depository. This session provides an introduction to the issues and procedures involved in making this transition. Subsequent sessions will provide more in depth detail about the… Read More

On behalf of the Government Printing Office, Ithaka S+R is launching a project that will develop sustainable models for the Federal Depository Library Program in the 21st century. Engaging the FDLP community is a top priority for this project, and community involvement will contribute substantially to the modeling of an FDLP that meets the needs of depository libraries as… Read More

As part of security enhancements and data consolidation, changes have been made to the online posting of shipping list files that impact how Federal depository libraries can download shipping lists by file format (.pdf, .dbf, .doc). File naming conventions have not changed (only the locations of the files) and no data has been lost.The following services have been… Read More

A new FDLP Web-based training session titled, “Going Mostly Electronic - Part I: The Basics,” is available via OPAL. The presentation is the first in a series on transitioning to a more electronic depository. This session provides an introduction to the issues and procedures involved in making this transition. Subsequent sessions will provide more in depth detail about… Read More

Several thousand MARC records representing cards in GPO’s Historic Shelflist are now available through the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). GPO will be enhancing these records by adding one Library of Congress Subject Heading and one corporate name authority as time and resources permit. Learn more about the Shelflist and how to locate Shelflist records in… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has initiated steps to complete its migration from the OCLC PURL Resolver Software to the new PURLZ Resolver Software for its PURL implementation.Start Date: Tuesday, September 21st at 4:30 p.m. EDTEnd Date: Friday, September 24th (Estimated)Starting Tuesday, September 21st at 4:30 p.m. EDT, GPO staff will cease updating PURLs… Read More

GPO is releasing monthly statistics on the activities of Statistics for  August 2010 activites of the FDLP and the Cataloging and Indexing Program have been released. Read More