Notable Numbers

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Last Updated: July 15 2020

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.

• There are 1,115 libraries in the FDLP.
• In FDLP eXchange, there are 280 libraries offering in 47 regions.
• Since the inception of ‘GPO on the Go’ in January 2015, GPO staff have visited 627 depository libraries in 50 states and the District of Columbia.
• There are 42 libraries serving as Preservation Stewards.
• There is 1 library serving as a Digital Preservation Steward.
• There are 3 libraries serving as Cataloging and Metadata Contributors.
• There are 15 libraries serving as Digital Access Partners
• There are 5 libraries serving as Digital Content Contributors.
• FDLP LibGuides has had more than 41,264 views to the 150 guides offered.
• The FDLP Academy has hosted 494 webinars, with more than 59,000 combined registrants.
• FDLP conferences and events have hosted 7,016 virtual registrants since 2012.
• GPO has increased the size of the FDLP Web Archive collection to 26.9 TB, with over 235,000,000 URLs crawled.

FY 2020 Statistics (Current from October 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020)

• 205 Federal depository libraries, or 18% of all depositories, are participating in the Cataloging Record Distribution Program.
• Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government saw 344,032 user sessions.
• FDLP.gov saw 147,449 user sessions.
• There have been 16,935,678 successful searches of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP).

• Added 15,956 new cataloging records to the CGP, of which 12,395 (or 77%) contained PURLs to full-text publications.
• Checked in 12,812 serial issues to the CGP and created 200 publication patterns for serial titles.
• Identified 3,549 previously-uncataloged Serial & Integrated Resource (IR) titles and created new bibliographic records.
• Responded to 3,257 askGPO inquiries.

• Authority records: 1,058 authority records created & updated.
  • NACO: 1,030 name authority records created & updated.
  • SACO: 28 subject authority records created & updated.
• BIBCO: 5,399 records created.
• CONSER:
  • Newly authenticated CONSER records: 1,306.
  • Changed CONSER records: 153.