News

U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) staff are increasingly using the FDLP Community forum to discuss matters related to the Federal Depository Library Program with the FDL community. There are over 600 members of the FDLP Community site and we want to hear from you!Currently, discussions are being held with GPO staff on:The Ben's Guide Web site redesignThe FDLP Desktop… Read More

FDsys is GPO’s official system for Federal information from all three branches of the U.S. Government. As GPO Access transitions and is shut down, Federal depository libraries are asked to assist in promoting/using FDsys and discontinue promoting/using GPO Access.In the past, brochures and other literature has been distributed or available for order that promote GPO… Read More

The Congressional Pictorial Directory is now available from the U.S. Government Printing Office.Published biennially by the Joint Committee on Printing, U.S. Congress, the Congressional Pictorial Directory is a compilation of color photographs of all of the men and women of Congress, including Senate and House leadership, officers, as well as appointed Delegates and the… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has released volumes 95-115 of the United States Statutes at Large, which spans from 1981 through 2002 (97th-107th Congresses). FDsys now provides access to all available United States Statutes at Large content from 1951 through 2007 (82nd – 110th Congresses).The U.S. Statutes at Large, typically referred to as the Statutes at… Read More

Yesterday, an announcement was made that the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is requesting to Congress and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) authority to offer buyouts and early outs to the agency’s 2,200 employees. GPO’s goal is to achieve a personnel reduction of 15% (or 330 positions), including a reduction in management and supervisory levels of 25%.This… Read More

One of the goals of the Superintendent of Documents, Mary Alice Baish, is to expand and enhance training opportunities for Federal depository library staff members. To help accomplish this goal, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is exploring options for delivering training sessions and managing educational materials. GPO is interested in learning from your… Read More

Our spotlight this month is on the Library of Virginia, whose staff just celebrated completion of a rather large retrospective cataloging project for their U.S. Congressional hearings. This is no easy feat if you consider that the library has over 1,782 shelves of hearings! Learn more about the catalog records that are now available for copy cataloging and the many other… Read More

From June 1st-July 31st, Federal depository libraries may add item numbers to their selection profiles. This is the only opportunity during the year when additions may be made.All additions become effective at the start of the new fiscal year on October 1st. Libraries may drop item numbers any time during the year.The schedule for the 2011 update cycle is as follows… Read More

The Registrant Guide for the 2011 Annual Interagency Depository Seminar is now posted.This week-long event will be held August 1-5 at GPO headquarters in Washington, D.C. Space is limited so sign up now!Representatives from various Federal agencies—including GPO, the Census Bureau, the Office of the Federal Register, and others—will give overviews of their products during… Read More

In our continuing efforts to improve the usability of the Catalog of the U.S. Government Publications (CGP), the label for the "URL/PURL" search option in the dropdown box of the Advanced view of the CGP has recently been changed to "Internet Access". This revised label is shown in the column heading “Internet Access" in the CGP Brief View and in the Standard view of a… Read More