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

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is currently recruiting for the position of Web Content Specialist. This position is located in the Library Planning and Development, Web Content Management section at GPO’s Central Office in Washington, DC.The incumbent of this position will be expected to plan, research, develop logic, code, test, deploy and document Web… Read More

The technical difficulties at GPO reported last evening have been resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. Read More

Public Printer Bob Tapella announced the appointment of five new members to the Depository Library Council (DLC). They are:Helen Burke is a Senior Government Documents Librarian in Business, Science and Government Documents at Hennepin County Library in Minnesota. Burke is an active participant in the information community, doing presentations on finding and using… Read More

Depository library personnel wear many hats these days, taking on varied and multiple responsibilities. This may certainly be a challenge for managing depository operations. Valdosta State University's Odum Library is one of our library partners where communication and cooperation between library personnel performing different depository responsibilities has proven to be… Read More

Starting on June 1, Federal depository libraries can begin adding item numbers to their profile selection. The update cycle runs annually and this is the only time where libraries can add to their item selection profile. Libraries may drop item numbers at any time during the year. All additions remain pending until the start of the new fiscal year (FY11).The schedule for… Read More

The Senate held its confirmation hearing for William Boarman, who is the nominee to be the next Public Printer, on Tuesday May 25th. In the testimony, Mr. Boarman mentioned the Federal Depository Library Program.You can watch the archived session and read his prepared statement. Read More

The microfiche Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), AE 2.106/3:; item no. 0572-C, is experiencing some delay in distribution. Necessary contractual modifications expected to be completed before distribution was affected did not occur. Additional issues have arisen from company restructuring and physical move of the production facility from Ohio to Michigan. National Archive… Read More

Join us tomorrow, May 26, 2010 at 1:00PM EST, as Laurie Hall, GPO's Director of Library Technical Information Services, hosts the May session of "Chat with GPO" via OPAL. Ms. Hall will discuss GPO's Pre-1976 Shelf List Project and take questions from the audience.This project converts cards in the historic card catalog covering U.S. Government documents from the 1870's -… Read More

A concept of operations describes the current and desired characteristics of an automated tool to be used for the disposition of materials in Federal depository libraries. It is a means to communicate concepts to users, stakeholders, and developers. The ConOps does not contain specific features; these will come later in the requirements document.The Automated Tool for… Read More