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Last Updated: November 26 2019

Published: November 26 2019

GPO’s Library Services & Content Management contributes to and supports four statutory programs:

• The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP)
• The Cataloging & Indexing Program (C&I)
• The International Exchange Service (IES)
• The By-Law Program

Notable numbers provides a snapshot of the work done to support these programs, as well as the results of that work.

FY 2019 Highlights at a Glance

• There were 29,030,087 successful searches of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) between October 1, 2018 and September 30, 2019.
• In the FDLP eXchange, there were 225 libraries offering in 36 regions, and 67 libraries posted needs in the FDLP eXchange.
• GPO staff visited 55 depository libraries in 13 states.
• Nine libraries became Preservation Stewards, and two libraries became Digital Content Contributors.
• FDLP LibGuides had more than 30,000 views to the 82 guides offered.
• The FDLP Academy hosted 36 webinars, with more than 3,955 combined registrants.
• A total of 84 participants—41 participants in the fall 2018 cohort and 43 participants in the spring 2019 cohort— received a certificate of completion from the FDLP Coordinator Certificate Program.
• GPO has increased the size of the FDLP Web Archive collection to 22.2 TB, with 189,000,000 URLs crawled.
• 185 Federal depository libraries, or 16.5% of all depositories, are participating in the Cataloging Record Distribution Program.
• Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government saw 1,246,219 user sessions.
• FDLP.gov saw 215,605 user sessions.

In FY 19, LSCM staff:

• Added 22,602 new cataloging records to the CGP, of which 15,546 (or 69%) contained PURLs to full-text publications.
• Checked in 33,873 serial issues to the CGP and created 523 publication patterns for serial titles.
• Identified 4,296 previously-uncataloged Serial & Integrated Resource (IR) titles and created new bibliographic records.
• Distributed 3,639 titles to FDLP libraries.
• Distributed 713,616 copies of materials to FDLP libraries.
• Responded to 5,387 askGPO inquiries.

Program for Cooperative Cataloging Statistics:

• Authority records: 1,431 authority records created & updated
  • NACO: 1,385 name authority records created & updated
  • SACO: 46 subject authority records created & updated
• BIBCO: 10,002 records created
• CONSER:
  • Authenticated records: 2,788
  • Maintenance of CONSER records: 510
  • Maintenance of non-CONSER records: 205