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The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) acknowledges the recent approval of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries’ (ASERL), Implementation Plan: Guidelines for the Management and Disposition of Federal Depository Library Collections, by  ASERL library deans and directors at the ASERL spring membership meeting.  ASERL members include 12 regional and… Read More

There may be a binding error with several Congressional Serial Set volumes that were recently distributed to Federal depository libraries. The following volumes may be bound incorrectly:House Document, No. 84, vol. 1, Congressional Serial Set, Serial Number 15165, Budget of United States Government, Fiscal Year 2009SuDocs Class: Y 1.1/2:SERIAL 15165Item Number: 1008… Read More

On Wednesday, May 10, 2011, Public Printer Bill Boarman testified before the House Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations and the Subcommittee on Oversight for the Committee on House Administration about a number of U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) initiatives designed to clarify needs of Congress, save money, and create an efficient, yet flexible… Read More

The U.S. Senate Rules and Administration Committee voted favorably on the nomination of Public Printer William J. “Bill” Boarman out of committee and to the full Senate for consideration. President Barack Obama renominated Public Printer Boarman in January. The President appointed Boarman on December 29, 2010, during a recess of the Senate. Boarman has been serving as the… Read More

GPO is releasing monthly statistics on the activities of Statistics for  April 2011 activites of the FDLP and the Cataloging and Indexing Program have been released. Read More

Deschler-Brown Precedents Volume 17 (Chapters 34 - 40) is now available from the U.S. Government Printing Office. Volume 17 of the Deschler-Brown Precedents incorporates an eclectic mix of chapters not logically placed in earlier volumes: constitutional amendments (ch. 34); presidential messages and executive communications (ch. 35); ceremonies and awards (ch. 36);… Read More

In January 2011, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) bulk modified PURLs to point from GPO Access to the FDsys equivalent since FDsys is GPO’s official system of record. Over the past few months, the library community has been reporting discrepancies with some new PURL target URLs pointing to FDsys. Consequently, GPO has reverted PURLs that originally pointed to GPO… Read More

On May 26, 2011 at 1:00pm EST, join Linda Resler and Patricia Duplantis of GPO's Library Technical Services Support as they host the May session of "Chat with GPO" via OPAL. This month's session is entitled "Searching the CGP" and will focus on the Basic, Advanced, Expert, Browse, and New Titles features of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). Questions… Read More

On March 17, Public Printer Bill Boarman testified before the Senate appropriations subcommittee on the costs of producing Federal publications, such as the Congressional Record. Subsequently, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) made a YouTube video on the production of the Congressional Record to illustrate the production process for this important publication… Read More

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been watching the news with concern for our partner libraries in areas affected by recent storm damage. We would like to remind libraries that if at any time a natural or manmade disaster impacts your library’s services or building access, GPO can temporarily stop your shipments or redirect them to an alternate address until… Read More