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FEATURE: Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming The allure of federated searching is potent in academic libraries. Students and faculty want to streamline their searching across web-based search engines, library collections, and the bibliographic databases to which the library subscribes. |
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 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 February 19, 2007 |
Ex Libris Releases MetaLib Version 4.00 Ex Libris Group announced the general release of MetaLib version 4.00, which provides a new topic clustering navigation tool and a fully accessible user interface that complies with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. |
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 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. |
Information Today September 13, 2004 Barbara Quint |
DOE's OSTI Service Expands Federal Government Coverage Recently, the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information expanded its collection of government contract databases with some half-a-million summaries of R&D projects to those supplied by the DOE itself and five other federal agencies. |
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 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 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 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. |
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 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 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 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 August 4, 2003 |
News Digest GPO Closes Five Bookstores... West Teams with Thomson Delphion... Snapshots Series Now Available Through Athens |
Information Today August 25, 2003 Miriam A. Drake |
Agreement Ensures Permanent Public Online Access to Government Information The Public Printer and Archivist of the United States announced an agreement that will enable the Government Printing Office and the National Archives and Records Administration to ensure free and permanent access to more than 250,000 federal government titles available through GPO Access. |
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 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 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 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 September 2003 |
NewsBytes Nstein Announces Partnerships... Snapshots' Athens Authentication Goes Live... CSA, BioOne Announce New Affiliation... etc. |
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 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 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 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 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. |
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. |
Information Today December 18, 2014 |
GPO Changes Its Name The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is now the U.S. Government Publishing Office. |
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. |
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 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 September 25, 2014 |
GPO Releases 50-Year-Old 'Warren Commission Report' The U.S. Government Printing Office made the full "Warren Commission Report" and 26 hearing volumes available on its Federal Digital System. |
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 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 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 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 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 January 14, 2014 |
GPO Plans for the Future The U.S. Government Printing Office released its Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2014-2018. It discusses the organization's intended evolution from print-centric to content-centric. |
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. |
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 July 3, 2014 |
GPO Plans to Downsize Workforce In response to its shift toward digital publishing initiatives, the U.S. Government Printing Office announced that it will request the authority to offer buyouts to its 1,850 employees. |
Information Today February 13, 2014 |
GPO Releases XML-Formatted Bill Summaries The U.S. Government Printing Office teamed up with the Library of Congress to provide bill summaries from the U.S. House of Representatives available for downloading in XML format. |
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. |
Searcher June 2002 Barbara Quint |
My Country, Right or Wrong I think librarians should lead the way in designing a new system that relies on Web delivery of all federal information, but ensures the protection of solid archiving and the enhancement of value-added delivery... |