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FDsys is GPO's Only Site for Free Online Government Information
March 16, 2012
As of today, March 16, 2012, the transition from GPO Access to GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) is complete. FDsys now is GPO's only Web site for online official and authentic Government information from all three branches of the Federal Government.After ushering GPO into the online world 16 years ago, GPO Access has been archived and taken off line. As part of the…
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FDLP Connection, Volume 2, Issue 3 Released
March 07, 2012
The March 2012 issue of FDLP Connection has been released. This month’s theme is "Going Mobile".You won't want to miss the article by our special guest author, Acting Public Printer Davita Vance-Cooks, as she shares her goals for technology innovation at GPO. In her column, Superintendent of Documents, Mary Alice Baish announces new Council members and reviews FDLP…
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GPO Access Shuts Down on March 16, 2012
March 07, 2012
On March 16, 2012, after 16 years of keeping America informed, GPO Access will shut down.On this day, one-to-one redirects will be activated that will direct users from GPO Access URLs to the FDsys equivalent. In the event that an exact equivalent could not be provided, users will be directed to the best available resource or the FDsys homepage. Read the GPO Access to…
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Update to Changes to Depository Item Selection Tools
February 27, 2012
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is working on an initial data cleaning effort necessary to migrate data from DDIS (our legacy mainframe system used to manage depository selection information) into our new system, the Depository Selection Information Management System (DSIMS). This effort is necessary to convert 30 years of legacy data into a format that…
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Update on Depository Item Selection Tools
February 23, 2012
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is working on an initial data cleaning effort necessary to migrate data from DDIS (our legacy mainframe system used to manage depository selection information) into our new system, the Depository Selection Information Management System (DSIMS). Due to this effort, the expected launch date of the new DSIMS interface to the FDLP is…
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Economic Report of the President, 2012
February 16, 2012
The Economic Report of the President, 2012 is now available from the U.S. Government Printing Office. It is issued by the Executive Office of the President and the Council of Economic Advisers and transmitted to Congress no later than ten days after the submission of the Budget of the United States Government. The Economic Report of the President is available on FDsys…
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President's Budget of the U.S. Government, FY 2013
February 12, 2012
The President's Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2013 is now available from the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). The public can search or browse the budget, which is accessible from FDsys. Budget documents are available in PDF, with many of the tables also available for separate viewing and downloading as spreadsheets in xls and comma delimited…
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FDLP and C&I Metrics - January 2012
February 12, 2012
GPO is releasing monthly statistics on the activities of Statistics for January 2012 activites of the FDLP and the Cataloging and Indexing Program have been released.
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Letter from the Superintendent of Documents to Library Directors on the FDLP Forecast Study
February 10, 2012
Dear Depository Library Director:In October GPO convened the annual Depository Library Council Meeting and Federal Depository Library Conference and an entire day was spent on visioning for the future of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). At that time, GPO proposed to create two tools that will assist in determining a national FDLP forecast and national…
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The FDLP Library Forecast Questionnaire has Launched
February 10, 2012
Each of you should have received an email from surveymonkey.com on behalf of fdlpoutreach. Please follow the link in this email to complete your FDLP library’s Forecast questionnaire documenting critical viewpoints and experiences. If you did not receive an email from surveymonkey.com on behalf of fdlpoutreach GPO will soon be posting a link to this online survey on the…
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