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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is providing public access to the newly discovered audio tape recording of conversations between various individuals in Washington and Air Force One pilots and officials on board during the flight from Dallas to Andrews Air Force Base following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) will be performing scheduled maintenance this weekend to upgrade askGPO.  After the upgrade, public functionality will remain the same, but will introduce a new interface and URL.Start Time: Saturday, February 4, 2012, 6:00 p.m. ESTEnd Time: Saturday, February 4, 2012, 8:00 p.m. ESTTotal Duration: 2 hoursDuring the… Read More

This is the final chance to weigh in on the designs for fdlp.gov and Ben’s Guide before coding begins. Help shape the future of these sites by participating in the on-going discussions on the FDLP Community site.Recently posted threads include information regarding:Screenshots of the proposed final template designs for both fdlp.gov and Ben’s Guide.Screenshots of proposed… Read More

The American Library Association’s 2012 Midwinter conference provided an opportunity for Superintendent of Documents Mary Alice Baish and State Forecast Project Co-lead Cherie Givens to provide an overview of the State Forecasting Project to members of the community attending a joint Government Information Subcommittee/GODORT Legislation Committee meeting and the Federal… Read More

2012 will see a brand new marketing campaign for the FDLP, complete with the creation of a new campaign slogan and a new set of tips and tools for libraries to use to promote themselves to both the public and non-depository libraries. Get involved, and vote for your favorite of seven potential campaign slogans, or provide suggestions for alternatives on the FDLP Community… Read More

Once again the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Library of Congress (LC) have collaborated to increase access to the Congressional Record (CR). At the request of the House Administration Committee, LC created an iPad app that provides access to the daily edition of the CR dating from January 4, 1995. The app uses CR files and associated metadata provided by… Read More

In January 2011, 42,163 PURLs were modified to change the target URLs to point from GPO Access to the FDsys equivalent; however, discrepancies were discovered in PURLs that originally pointed to http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/*. Consequently, in May 2011, the 41,952 PURLs that pointed to frwebgate resources were reverted back to their original targets while the situation… Read More

The 4th annual Library Services and Content Management (LSCM) Year in Review has been released. It addresses topics such as the Digitization Projects Registry, Needs & Offers 2.0, the GPO Access transition to FDsys, the Cataloging Record Distribution Project, the PACER: Access and Education Program, the FDsys Training Initiative, and more. Titled, LSCM’s Past, Present… Read More

Bill Boarman has been honored to serve as the 26th Public Printer of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) for the last year. Having been nominated originally 20 months ago, having been reported out of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee unanimously twice, and not having been permitted to learn and respond to the nature of the objection to his confirmation,… Read More

The U.S. Army Chaplin Corps recently released the title, Reliable and Religious: U.S. Army Chaplains and the War of 1812, with a printing error; the chapter numbers in the Table of Contents do not match the page numbers. The agency has been contacted and has decided not to correct the error due to the expense of reprinting. Based on this decision by the agency, the copy… Read More