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Information Today
February 17, 2009
Miriam A. Drake |
GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) Goes Live The U.S. Government Printing Office hit the on switch in early February and brought up its new digital system, FDsys, for access to government information. T   |
Information Today
June 16, 2003
Miriam A. Drake |
GPO and OMB Compromise on Agency Printing: More information at a lower cost? At the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1, GPO will develop a demonstration print procurement contract for an agency or department chosen by OMB. The program will feature an online system that allows federal agency GPO customers to use a one-stop and integrated system for print ordering and invoicing. |
Information Today
February 21, 2013
Miriam A. Drake |
GPO's Mission Is Validated by an Independent Study The report affirms GPO's mission of authenticating, preserving, and distributing Federal information and recommends measures to strengthen the agency's business model and activities for the future. |
Information Today
April 2005
Miriam A. Drake |
GPO Seeks Public-Private Partnership The U.S. Government Printing Office is looking to distribute publications to private sector retailers such as bookstores and newsstands to increase access to government information. |
Searcher
February 2003
Mariam A. Drake |
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science: Why Not? NCLIS is one of the smallest agencies in the U.S. government, with a million-dollar budget, hardly a drop in the ocean of the trillion dollar plus federal budget. While the Commission's work has been significant, it suffers from lack of visibility inside and outside the government. |
Information Today
December 2003
Barbara Quint |
The Numbers Racket The bottom line is that the people own the government. The people pay for the government. The people own the information the government collects and the documents it produces. The government owes the people what they have paid for. The Web is the best way to deliver that information. |
Information Today
April 23, 2012
Miriam A. Drake |
Federal Depository Library Program: Legislative Issues The program is the subject of a report released by the Congressional Research Service: "Federal Depository Library Program: Issues for Congress" that includes a brief history of the program and a discussion on some key issues. |
Information Today
December 9, 2002
Miriam A. Drake |
Government Printing Tug of War Continues The Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum on May 3, 2002 that directed executive agencies to contract directly with private firms for printing their documents. Things have gotten even more complicated since then in a bitter spate of infighting. |
Searcher
October 2008
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Gaslight Librarians scattered across the country, committed to the preservation and dissemination of public information can do a more thorough and secure job than just federal agencies alone. |
Information Today
March 11, 2014 |
GPO Offers Free Ebooks The U.S. Government Printing Office will expand its ebook program to allow free public access to titles in the GPO's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, a finding tool for federal historical and current publications. |
Information Today
March 10, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
Upheaval at the National Archives Who knew that libraries, records, and archives could be so controversial? |
Information Today
December 13, 2010
Miriam A. Drake |
National Archives and NTIS Agree on the Preservation of Digital Scientific and Technical Information Under the terms of the agreement, technical reports and material collected and maintained by NTIS will be preserved in accordance with NARA standards. Preservation of these materials will facilitate access to the historical records of federally funded research in the future. |
Information Today
February 14, 2013 |
U.S. Government Printing Office Joins Pinterest Connecting people through "things" they find interesting is the founding principle of Pinterest and a natural fit with GPO's core mission of Keeping America Informed on the three branches of the federal government. |
Information Today
May 16, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
Public Printer Goes to the Hill -- GPO at a Crossroads Rep. Charles Gonzales (D-Texas) entered into the record the testimony of Suzanne Sears, assistant dean of public services University Libraries, University of North Texas, on the value of print documents to professional researchers and archivists. |
Searcher
October 2002
Mariam A. Drake |
Cost Cutting or Access Control: OMB Dismantiling GPO? By far, the most significant damage resulting from the Office of Management and Budget's proposal would be the effect it would have on the Government Printing Office's ability for ensuring citizen access to government information. |
Information Today
September 2002
Barbara Quint |
'Documents? What Documents?' The long-term feud between the executive and legislative branches of the federal government over who gets to print and publish federal government documents has broken out once more. |
Information Today
August 5, 2002
Miriam A. Drake |
Is the GPO Endangered? For the Government Printing Office, dissemination of government documents is a nonpartisan, virtually automatic process, which has been enhanced in recent years by expanded reliance on the Internet and other new technologies. Now the GPO's hands have been tied. |
Information Today
September 18, 2014 |
The DPLA Adds Medical and Governmental Sources The Digital Public Library of America announced partnerships with the Medical Heritage Library and the U.S. Government Printing Office. |
Information Today
August 24, 2009 |
U.S. Healthcare Reform Bill Available on FDsys As lawmakers and Americans discuss healthcare reform, the U.S. Government Printing Office has made available H.R. 3200, America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, in electronic and printed form. |
Information Today
April 15, 2014 |
GPO Reaches Retrieval Milestone The U.S. Government Printing Office announced that 1 billion documents have been retrieved from its Federal Digital System, which provides free online access to about 1 million official federal government publications. |
Information Today
February 21, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Virtual Reference Service From GPO and Depository Libraries--GIO: Ask a Librarian A formal agreement between the U.S. Government Printing Office and a network of 20 depository libraries has relaunched and expanded the scope of a virtual reference service called Government Information Online. |
Information Today
August 25, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
GPO Disapproves of Report on the Future of Federal Depository Libraries The report had too little input -- only 75 comments from a small community of depository librarians with no input from the ultimate users of government information. |
Information Today
November 18, 2010 |
U.S. GPO Content Available Through EBSCO Discovery Service EDS Customers will be able to search for federal records from the Government Printing Office's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. |
Information Today
October 22, 2012 |
Treasury Department Data Heading Toward GPO's FDsys Portal Through the pilot project, the Treasury Reporting Rates of Exchange, 1956-2005, which list the exchange rates of foreign currencies based on the dollar, are now available on FDsys. |
Information Today
March 25, 2010 |
Controversial Healthcare Reform Bill and Debate Now Available on GPO's Federal Digital System The U.S. Government Printing Office has made the healthcare reform bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives available in electronic form. |
D-Lib
February 2001
Kenneth Thibodeau |
Building the Archives of the Future Advances in Preserving Electronic Records at the National Archives and Records Administration... |
Information Today
August 28, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Consortium--Minus NARA--Archiving Bush Administration Websites Archiving policies, procedures, and assignments have not kept pace with the rapid switch of the federal government to web technology. |
D-Lib
May 2003
Marcum & Friedlander |
Keepers of the Crumbling Culture What digital preservation can learn from library history |
Searcher
May 2003
Miriam Drake |
Government Doublethink: Protection or Supression in Information This article deals with government information activities after September 11, 2001 and covers regulations and actions related to government withholding, suppressing, and altering information. |
D-Lib
March 2004
Catherine Ayre & Adrienne Muir |
The Right to Preserve: The Rights Issues of Digital Preservation The Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation (CLDP) project, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, ran from September 2002 to March 2004. The project's aim was to investigate whether and how copyright legislation and licensed access to digital content affect the ability of libraries to provide long-term access to that content, and to suggest solutions for any problems identified. |
Information Today
December 17, 2015 |
GPO Signs Up to Help Preserve Historical Government Technical Reports The U.S. Government Publishing Office became the first federal agency to join the Technical Report Archive & Image Library. The organizations will work together to advance free public access to government information |
Information Today
November 4, 2010
Peggy Garvin |
GPO Federates Federal Government Catalogs--GPO MetaLib GPO MetaLib simultaneously searches more than 50 federal government publication catalogs, federal library catalogs, and specialized indexes. |
Information Today
May 8, 2014 |
GPO's Annual Report Goes Public The GPO's highlights from the past year include new apps, expanded access to U.S. House of Representatives bill summaries, and an upgraded online bookstore for GPO titles. |
D-Lib
January 2002
Anne R. Kenney |
Preservation Risk Management for Web Resources Virtual remote control in Cornell's Project Prism... |
Information Today
May 12, 2003 |
News Digest GPO Provides Public Access to McCarthy Hearings... CSA Acquires Design and Applied Arts Index... Dialog Adds Market Research Reports to Dialog Profound |
Information Today
September 1, 2015 |
GPO Offers Electronic Code of Federal Regulations in XML Format All of the titles in the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations are available in XML format to facilitate one-click bulk data download from the Federal Digital System. |
Information Today
August 4, 2003 |
News Digest GPO Closes Five Bookstores... West Teams with Thomson Delphion... Snapshots Series Now Available Through Athens |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2012 |
In Brief and In the News SPRUCE project tackles digital preservation challenges with hands on events... The TIMBUS project - timeless business processes and services... Orphan works and mass digitization: obstacles and opportunities... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2004
Lavoie & Dempsey |
Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation Fulfilling the promise of integrated and readily accesible material requires the cultivation of stakeholder communities that meaningfully engage with digital information environments. |
Information Today
March 31, 2015 |
GPO to Launch Webinar Series in April The webinars will be presented via its FDLP (Federal Depository Library Program) Academy by representatives from the GPO and FDLP libraries across the country. |
Information Today
September 4, 2014 |
GPO Designates First Digital-Only FDLP Member Sitting Bull College Library became the first digital-only member of the U.S. Government Printing Office's Federal Depository Library Program. |
Information Today
June 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Presidential Archives: Hype, Reality, and Limits to Access Presidential records belong to the public according to law, but in 2001 President Bush signed an executive order limiting access to these records. |
Information Today
September 26, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
End User Survey of Federal Depository Libraries The survey conducted by Outsell was designed to serve as a support for GPO's strategic planning effort as well as for libraries participating in the depository library program. |
Information Today
October 11, 2012 |
Presidential Documents App Available From GPO, National Archives The app is part of both agencies' efforts to support The White House's digital strategy for the federal government by ensuring the American people have access to government information on any device. |
Information Today
April 7, 2011 |
GSA and GPO Partner With Google to Offer Free Government Publications The program is making available 100 consumer-related Federal Government publications distributed through GSA's Federal Citizen Information Center on Google Books. |
Information Today
August 27, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
Another Step Toward Transparency in Government The U.S. Code has been available online, but not always up-to-date, in an easily accessible format. With the release of an XML format, the public can expect developers to create apps to view and analyze legislative data in new and exciting ways. |
Information Today
December 2004
Barbara Quint |
Kurt Molholm's Lessons Learned An interview with the newly retired administrator of the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) on changes in sci-tech research and its distribution and the future of libraries and information centers. |
D-Lib
September 2005
Bonita Wilson |
A Digital Information Management Milestone The US National Archives and Records Administration's award of a $308 million, six-year contract to Lockheed Martin, Inc. to build NARA's Electronic Records Archives was a significant event. |
Searcher
October 2003
Marylaine Block |
How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation. |
D-Lib
August 2007
Gano & Linden |
Government Information in Legacy Formats: Scaling a Pilot Project to Enable Long-Term Access An "open repository" model would allow institutions to approach archiving tasks and sets of CD-ROMs in different ways. |
