Classification Guidelines for Digital Reproductions

With the increasing availability of digital reproductions of older U.S. Government publications, GPO has developed procedures for assigning SuDocs classification numbers and depository item numbers to these publications as they are added to the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). Many of these digital reproductions represent publications that were never… Read More

Cartographic Resources

This section covers classification of maps and charts. While many maps use classification numbers that are constructed according to the general rules in previous sections, this section covers numbers that are derived from elements other than a Cutter or series number, including maps such as the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 7.5 minute quadrangle maps and related… Read More

Congressional and Legislative Branch Publications

This section deals with publications of the U.S. Congress and its committees, as well as boards, commissions, and committees established by an act of Congress. As in all classes, follow established patterns when classifying a new publication and general guidelines for formulating classification numbers unless a specific guideline in this chapter directs otherwise.Letter… Read More

Presidential Publications

Most publications of U.S. Government agencies follow the classification rules as presented in the main guidance sections. The publications of the Executive Office of the President, the Vice President, and Presidential commissions and committees established by executive order that report to the President have specific rules outlined here. The agency symbol assigned to… Read More

List of Major Changes to the Cataloging Guidelines

GPO continually reviews and updates the GPO Cataloging Guidelines. Changes may be based on revisions and additions to the national cataloging and metadata standards that GPO follows or the need to include new guidelines and/or modify existing ones as we encounter new types of Federal government information resources or cataloging and metadata situations. The List… Read More

Initialisms and Acronyms

AGL: National Agricultural Library BFM: bibliographic file maintenance BIBCO: Monographic component of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging CGP: Catalog of U.S. Government Publications Class Web or Minaret: The official repository of the Library of Congress Subject Headings. CONSER: Serials component of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging DC: Dublin… Read More

Glossary

AAcquisition record: A bibliographic record at encoding level 5, MARC partial (preliminary) level, created to represent a tangible publication that has been ordered or received for either the Cataloging and Indexing (C&I) Program or Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). An acquisition record is considered in process and eligible for cataloging at higher encoding… Read More

Other Metadata Schemes: ONIX

In 2004, in an effort to make Federal Government information more widely available to the American public through commercial book dealers, the Government Printing Office (GPO) adopted the use of ONIX (Online Information Exchange) as a metadata format for delivering publication information for U.S. Government information products in the GPO Sales Program. ONIX has become… Read More

Other Metadata Schemes: Dublin Core

The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DC), for which the current iteration is version 1.1 available at http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/, is a simplified schema for description of collections and works within collections.It was conceived in the 1990's to aid in resource discovery as the Internet was expanding and more resources became available. Specific… Read More

Continuing Resources

This section addresses the classification of continuing resources, which include serials and integrating resources; rules for special types of material may also apply. When classifying continuing resources, particularly serials and series, see also Monographic Series, Cutter Numbers, and Congressional and Legislative Branch Publications chapters as… Read More
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