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The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is temporarily suspending access to its Online Programming for All Libraries (OPAL) archive from www.fdlp.gov, pending a review for data integrity and an analysis of the archived content. Once this has been completed, GPO will update the Federal depository library community on the status of archived OPAL educational content. … Read More

You are invited to two educational webinars on GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) on Wednesday, November 14, 2012.‪At 11:00am EST on Nov. 14, join GPO for an hour-long introductory course on navigating Federal Government information using FDsys. During this session, attendees will learn about basic and advanced searching, browsing, retrieving by citation, Help tools,… Read More

The State Focused Action Plans (SFAP), created as part of the FDLP Forecast Study, are available for download.Depositories worked collaboratively to develop these plans that document the goals and initiatives of their state or multi-state Federal depository library regions.If a SFAP was not submitted for your state or territory, there's still time!All FDLP Forecast… Read More

Three new promotional flyers are now available for FDLP libraries:GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys): Details FDsys capabilities and features and also serves as a guide to navigating FDsys search results.Federal Depository Libraries: Describes the Federal Depository Library Program and how to find a nearby depository. Space is also provided for library personalization… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has released statistics for September 2012 regarding the activites of the FDLP and the Cataloging and Indexing (C&I) Program. Read More

The deadline for submitting FDLP Library Forecasts, FLDP State Forecasts, and State Focused Action Plans to the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been extended to November 30, 2012. The extension is a result of discussions during the 2012 Depository Library Council Meeting and Federal Depository Library Conference forecast sessions.GPO will facilitate virtual… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) would like to thank all those that attended and presented at the 80th meeting of the Depository Library Council and the 20th Federal Depository Library Conference (Meeting and Conference). The Meeting and Conference was a great success. We look forward to seeing everyone again next October.Proceedings from the Meeting and… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the U.S. Department of Treasury have partnered on a pilot project to make historical digitized content from the Treasury Library available on GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys). Through the pilot project, Treasury Reporting Rates of Exchange, 1956-2005, which list the exchange rates of foreign currencies based on the dollar,… Read More

For the first time, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) honored three extraordinary Federal Depository Libraries of the Year at the 2012 Depository Library Council Meeting and Federal Depository Library Conference.One regional depository and two selective depositories received special recognition for going above and beyond to further the Federal Depository Library… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has released statistics for August 2012 regarding the activites of the FDLP and the Cataloging and Indexing (C&I) Program. Read More