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Webinar Rescheduled: Introducing FDLP Data Manager – A New Tool to Assist in Managing FDLP Collections

March 07, 2024
Register for the webinar, “Introducing FDLP Data Manager (FDM) – A New Tool to Assist in Managing FDLP Collections," which has been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Those who registered for the original February 21 event do not need to re-register; however, you may want to update the webinar date on your calendars. New login information will be emailed to… Read More

GPO Director Names Chief Human Capital Officer

March 06, 2024
The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director Hugh Nathanial Halpern has named Elizabeth (Beth) Shearer as the Agency’s Chief Human Capital Officer. As Chief Human Capital Officer, Shearer will plan and implement the human resources systems and oversee the policies and procedures that guide GPO’s innovative human resources operation — policies designed… Read More

Webinar: How PubMed Works: Introduction

March 05, 2024
Register to attend the live training webinar, "How PubMed Works: Introduction." Date:  Tuesday, April 2, 2024 Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (EDT)   Recording and closed captioning are available. All webinars are free of charge. Speakers:  April Wright,… Read More

FDLP Separates Shipping List Changes

March 01, 2024
FDLP Distribution is implementing a new procedure for distributing Separates in individually packaged cartons.   FDLP Separates are usually large bound or unbound volumes, maps or posters in tubes, and oversized publications that must be shipped in individual containers or cartons. They appear on Separates shipping lists, designated with the suffix “S” (e.g., 2024… Read More

Superintendent of Documents Classification Numbers Corrections Policies

February 29, 2024
Effective March 1, 2024, GPO’s Library Services & Content Management (LSCM) will implement the following policies on changing the Superintendent of Documents classification (SuDoc) numbers in GPO records in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications and OCLC. LSCM’s Chief of Library Technical Services (LTS) and LTS Supervisory Librarians will make… Read More

New CGP Snapshot Files Available on GitHub

February 28, 2024
As of February 2024, GPO’s Library Services and Content Management (LSCM) has posted a new set of all MARC bibliographic records (1,080,961) in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) on GitHub. That is an increase of 58,079 records (6%) since the 2023 snapshot. In combination with the CGP Records Monthly Files collection of… Read More

Census Bureau Webinar Series: Exploring the Diversity of Census Bureau Data

February 27, 2024
This message is being posted on behalf of the U.S. Census Bureau. Census Academy is offering a 2024 webinar series, “Exploring the Diversity of Census Bureau Data.” This webinar series will use real-life scenarios to help you learn how to locate and use data tools to access Census Bureau data. “Exploring the Diversity of Census Bureau Data” is broken… Read More