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FDLP.gov Scheduled Maintenance: Tuesday, April 16, 2024
April 16, 2024
FDLP.gov will undergo routine maintenance this week.
Start Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 3:00 p.m. (EDT)
End Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 6:00 p.m. (EDT)
Total Duration: 3 hours
During this time, no content will be updated, and you may experience brief, intermittent downtime.
We apologize for the inconvenience and…
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Spring 2024 DLC Virtual Meeting: Preliminary Agenda Now Available
April 15, 2024
This message has been cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication.
The spring 2024 Depository Library Council (DLC) Virtual Meeting is taking place May 2.
A preliminary agenda is now available.
Register to participate in the virtual programs.
The DLC serves as an advisory committee to the GPO Director and the Superintendent of Documents and offers advice…
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New Electronic Titles for March 2024
April 15, 2024
New Electronic Titles (NET) are now available for March 2024. These files are accessible from the New Titles section of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP).
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CGP Monthly Maintenance: April 2024
April 15, 2024
The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP), including GPO’s MetaLib, will undergo routine maintenance.
Start Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 8:00 p.m. (EDT)
End Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024, 6:00 a.m. (EDT)
During this maintenance period, you may experience brief, intermittent downtime. We apologize for the inconvenience and…
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Historic Publications for Spring 2024
April 11, 2024
New featured publications have been added to the Historic Publications page for Spring 2024, including:
Peace Corps publications from Digital Content Contributor, the University of Memphis.
Storyboard for the 1979 film “Charlie Brown Clears the Air.”
Issues of the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation back to 1955.
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Update to the List of Classes: Library Action Needed by Monday, April 15, 2024
April 10, 2024
LSCM continues to update the formats available for selection in the List of Classes to reflect the implementation of the digital FDLP. Previous updates to the List of Classes impacted primarily the titles without separate EL format item numbers, and did not impact individual library selection profiles. Next, LSCM staff will be inactivating item numbers for…
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GPO Director Presents FY2025 Appropriations Request To Congress
April 10, 2024
The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director Hugh Nathanial Halpern presented GPO’s FY 2025 appropriations request before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations. Director Halpern requested appropriations in the amount of $136,089,000, a 3.1 percent increase over GPO’s FY 2024 appropriation. Direct appropriations represent only about 10…
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Registration Open: Government Information Day Conference, Virtual Attendance
April 09, 2024
This message is being posted on behalf of the Indiana State Library.
Registration is now open for virtual attendance for the 2024 Government Information Day Conference on Friday, May 17, 2024. Government Information Day, or GID, is a free biennial conference for librarians interested in learning about Government resources and improving information literacy…
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Webcast: LSCM GitHub Repositories Webcast Series : Overview
April 08, 2024
A new webcast, "LSCM GitHub Repositories Webcast Series - Overview," is now available for viewing.
Speaker: Stephen Kharfen, Supervisory Librarian, Library Technical Services, Library Services & Content Management (LSCM), U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO)
Learning outcomes: LSCM uses GitHub, the web-based computer source code sharing and…
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Webinar: Orientation to the Constitution Annotated
April 08, 2024
Register to attend the live training webinar, "Orientation to the Constitution Annotated."
Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (EDT)
Recording and closed captioning are available. All webinars are free of charge.
Speaker: Barbara Bavis, Bibliographic…
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