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The 2nd annual Library Services and Content Management (LSCM) Year in Review has been released. It emphasizes the major accomplishments of fiscal year 2009 for providing current and future access to U.S. Government publications. Further it highlights how LSCM works collaboratively and in partnership with various entitites to advance discovery of and access to Government… Read More

The Oklahoma Department of Libraries (ODL) was named the 2009 Federal Depository Library of the Year at the Fall Federal Depository Library Conference and Depository Library Council meeting in Arlington, Virginia. Public Printer Robert C. Tapella presented the award to ODL’s Steve Beleu and Cliff Broadworth on behalf of the U.S. Government Printing Office and the Federal… Read More

Who:Public Printer Bob Tapella will address hundreds of librarians from around the country at the Fall Federal Depository Library Conference & Depository Library Council Meeting. Federal Depository Libraries work with the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) to provide Americans with authentic, published Government information.What:Tapella will announce the 2009… Read More

GPO is releasing monthly statistics on the activities of Statistics for  September 2009 activites of the FDLP and the Cataloging and Indexing Program have been released. Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has relaunched WEBTech Notes on the FDLP Desktop. WEBTech Notes is designed to support the management of Federal depository library collections. Federal depository libraries can use WEBTech Notes to search, browse, and view updates to Superintendent of Documents classification numbers and List of Classes information.Contrary to… Read More

(From left to right): Bob Tapella; Paul Lomio (Law Library director); Carl Malamud (public.resource.org); Roland Vogl (Executive Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology); Erika Wayne (Law Library deputy director); Brian Provenzale (E-resources & Serials Librarian)Public Printer Bob Tapella visited the Robert Crown Law Library at Stanford… Read More

It's time again to conduct the Biennial Survey of Depository Libraries. This year's survey is different from past surveys. In addition to the Biennial Survey, you'll find this is also a needs assessment. Library Services and Content Management wants to learn "how well we are doing" and "what we need to do next" in order to better support your needs. The survey will run… Read More

Libraries are reminded that all new items added to item selection profiles during the 2009 Annual Update Cycle are now active. You should begin receiving these items with the first shipping list for FY10, which is currently being prepared for shipment. The final shipping lists issued for FY09 are as follows:Microfiche SL 2009-0358-MPaper SL 2009-0463-PSeparates SL 2009… Read More

New Needs and Offers (N&O) posts from Federal depository libraries are usually added weekly to the N&O service maintained by GPO. You may now subscribe to an RSS feed that announces when new posts have been added. Subscribe by going to the N&O page and clicking on either the RSS link in the Web page or the RSS link you see in the browser’s address window. The… Read More

In March 2009, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) received funding from H.R. 1105, the Omnibus Appropriations Act of FY 2009 (Pub. L. 111-8). This law funds several important initiatives, including those of the Cataloging and Indexing Program (C & I). Among those initiatives is a project to enhance the services GPO provides to members of the FDLP and the public… Read More