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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.   |
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 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
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
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
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
June 20, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
Co-Sponsor a Congressional Bill and Track Its Progress Cosponsor.gov is a sweeping expansion of the Citizen Cosponsor Project. The new website will now feature every bill and resolution introduced in the House, from Republicans and Democrats. |
Information Today
June 23, 2015
Corilee Christou |
Finding a Librarian of Congress for the Digital Age It's time to move on and finally hire, first and foremost, a Librarian of Congress with the appropriate library degree and experience. |
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
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
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. |
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 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. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2014
Theron Westervelt |
Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications: Encouraging Preservation Without Discouraging Creation The Library of Congress has devised the Recommended Format Specifications to enable it to identify what formats will most easily lend themselves to preservation and long-term access, especially with regard to digital formats. |
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
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
November 28, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Library of Congress Launches Global "Rare Book" Digitization Project with Google Donation The Library of Congress' emerging "megalibrary" is getting a virtual "rare books" room thanks to Google. |
Information Today
May 28, 2015 |
Library of Congress Updates Website With New Interface and Web Archive Content This is the first big content release since June 2013, and it comes with a simplified interface and similarities to web archives at other institutions. |
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
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
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
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
November 6, 2014 |
Library of Congress Releases Digital Preservation Survey Results The survey explores the state of digital preservation practice and how organizations and professionals can do preservation work. |
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. |
D-Lib
October 2000
James J. O'Donnell |
LC21 - Hopes and Cautions for the Library of Congress It is the Library of Congress's fate to be a symbol as well as a library... |
Information Today
November 28, 2005
Richard W. Wiggins |
British Library and Others Join Microsoft in Document Standards Effort Seeking to promote digital preservation of documents composed in Microsoft Office formats, the British Library and a number of other enterprises have joined Microsoft's effort to define a new standard for Office Open XML. |
D-Lib
May 2003
Priscilla Caplan |
XML in Libraries Reading XML in Libraries, edited by Roy Tennant, gave me once again a powerful sense of the vigor and creativity with which we seize upon new technologies. The book features a baker's dozen of short case studies describing various library-related applications using XML in some way. |
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. |
InternetNews
May 21, 2007
Clint Boulton |
Microsoft, China Translate Files in Open Source Microsoft today said it is funding an open source translator project between China's Unified Office Format and the Ecma Open XML file formats. |
Searcher
March 2007
Mary Alice Baish |
Librarians as Change Agents: How You Can Help Influence Public Policy in the 110th Congress Key library issues for the 110th Congress. |
Information Today
July 11, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Congressional Research Service Documents -- Free or Fee? Free Internet services offering copies of Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports have begun to emerge, but the free offerings, supplied by sources such as the new Open CRS, still cannot match the comprehensiveness of some fee-based services, such as Penny Hill Press' collection, which is available in full text through GalleryWatch.com. |
Information Today
April 30, 2012 |
Scout -- A New Free Alert System for Government Information Sunlight Labs introduced Scout, a free alert system for the things you care about in state and national government. It covers Congress, regulations across the whole executive branch, and legislation in all 50 states. |
Information Today
January 5, 2016
George H. Pike |
The Year in Congress: Accomplishments in 2015 A review is offered of new laws that affect the library community and the information industry. |
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
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
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. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2014
Rimkus et al. |
Digital Preservation File Format Policies of ARL Member Libraries: An Analysis While concerted efforts have been made in the library community to encourage common standards, digital preservation policies regularly vary from one digital library service to another. |
Information Today
May 12, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
LC Works to Make Collections Accessible and Compelling The venerable Library of Congress (LC), has been leading the way with some exciting digital preservation projects and working with leading multimedia partners on innovative projects. |
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
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. |
Wired
November 2000
David Corn |
Filegate.gov The biggest Congressional scandal of the digital age: Politicians aren't putting public docs on the Net, and no one seems to care... |
Information Today
July 2, 2015 |
New GPO App Provides Information on the 114th Congress The free Mobile Member Guide for the 114th Congress app is now available from the U.S. Government Publishing Office |
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
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
December 10, 2007
Barbara Quint |
The Library of Congress and the Future of Bibliographic Control: Working Group Report The recommendations of the report seem predominantly focused on book cataloging and, in that regard, how to curtail the Library of Congress' role in the future. |
Reason
June 2007
David Weigel |
Free the CRS! Government transparency: Data searches are free to members of Congress, but for the rest of the country's taxpayers, who paid for the research, they're not. |
InternetNews
April 22, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
XML Encryption Added to Apache Project The Apache Foundation's XML Security Project takes another step towards full implementation of security standards in the markup language. |
Information Today
January 6, 2015 |
Library of Congress Seeks Applications for National Digital Stewardship Residency The Library of Congress' digital preservation blog, The Signal, announced the official open call for applications for the 2015-2016 National Digital Stewardship Residency. |
Information Today
April 14, 2008
Kathy Dempsey |
The Library of Congress Delivers a Whole New Experience Digitizing archival treasures to allow wider access has become a major strategy in many organizations, and the venerable Library of Congress has just put itself at the forefront of that movement again. |
