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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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LSCM is pleased to announce recent enhancements made to the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. These enhancements include:
Basic Search page
- The addition of a navigation bar to increase the number of search options available from this page and reduce the number of clicks needed to progress to more advanced searches
- New link to information about the Federal Depository Library Program in the introductory text: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/libraries.html. This page also contains a link to the public view of the Federal Depository Library Directory (FDLD)
Advanced Search page
- Aleph System Number added to drop down menu.
- Modified and expanded Search Hints
Help Page
Updated to include:
- Updated Basic Search screen captures
- Item Number Search examples under Advanced section
- Listing of additional Common Command Language codes under Expert section
- More examples of searches
- Link to http://www.gpoaccess.gov/libraries.html in the "Locate in a Library" section. This page also contains a link to the public view of the FDLD
- URLs updated
- GPO assigned PURLs provided for the Search pages
- Updated guidance for using askGPO
Bookshelf Page
Previous Searches Page
- Catalogs Searched now display
Email Pages
- .mrc format was removed from email options. Currently a system limitation causes the insertion of erroneous characters in larger records, corrupting the records. This will be revisited if the vendor fixes this bug.
Catalogs to Search Pages
Locate in a Library
- Link to http://www.gpoaccess.gov/libraries.html added to search and results pages, providing introductory information on the FDLP for users who may not be familiar with the program. This page also contains a link to the public view of the FDLD
General
- White space above copyright notice reduced
- Error notice messages more customized
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 02 July 2008 )
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New Item Number Procedure
GPO has begun to create separate item numbers for the online only (EL) format of the U.S.
Congressional Committee Hearings and Prints and related miscellaneous
publications, known as "Y 4's". Read more.
Administrative Notes (Ad Notes)
Separate Cataloging Approach
On October 1, LSCM adopted the use of the separate cataloging approach. Now the CGP will have a unique bibliographic record for each format of a document with links to all formats identified by LSCM catalogers. For more information about this new practice, read more.
FDLP Comm. Site Open Beta Test
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Recently, GPO launched closed beta testing for the FDLP Community site. Based on the feedback received, we have implemented modifications and are ready for the next phase of testing.
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FDLP Site Migration
 We are in the process of migrating the FDLP Desktop site content to our new domain. Click here to access the original FDLP Desktop.
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