Date:Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:31:29 -0500
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The following message was posted to the FDLP Directors list earlier today.
Judy
Judith C. Russell ([log in to unmask])
Managing Director, Information Dissemination (Superintendent of Documents)
U.S. Government Printing Office
Phone: 202-512-0571
Fax: 202-512-1434
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> Subject: FW: GPO PROPOSES 21st CENTURY DIGITAL INFORMATION FACTORY
>
> Here is the press release on the GPO Strategic Vision for the 21st Century
> that was just released. The major initiatives that we have been discussing
> for the past year or so are part of the strategic vision, including
> digitization of the legacy collection of U.S. Government publications, use
> of web discovery and harvesting to capture born digital publications and
> make the FDLP collection more complete, and establishment of two National
> Collections of U.S. Government Publications to hold all known tangible and
> electronic FDLP documents. The strategic vision document is available at
> http://www.gpo.gov/congressional/pdfs/04strategicplan.pdf
> <http://www.gpo.gov/congressional/pdfs/04strategicplan.pdf> .
>
> I will be sending a paper copy of this document and the GPO annual report
> to each director of a Federal Depository Library shortly.
>
> Although there are a number of interesting things in the annual report,
> one important highlight appears in the financial statement. It shows a
> significant turn around from a loss of $34.5 million is FY 2003 to
> retained earnings (Net Profit/Loss before other operating expenses) of
> $1.3 million in FY 2004. The annual report is available online at
> http://www.gpo.gov/congressional/annualreports/04annrep/GPO_2004_ANNUAL_RE
> PORT_web.pdf
> <http://www.gpo.gov/congressional/annualreports/04annrep/GPO_2004_ANNUAL_R
> EPORT_web.pdf> .
>
> If you have questions or comments about either document, please feel free
> to contact me.
>
> Judy Russell
>
> Judith C. Russell ([log in to unmask])
> Managing Director, Information Dissemination (Superintendent of Documents)
> U.S. Government Printing Office
> Phone: 202-512-0571
> Fax: 202-512-1434
>
>
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 13, 2004 No. 04-33
> CONTACT: Veronica Meter, 202-512-1957, 202-441-6226 cell,
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> GPO PROPOSES 21st CENTURY DIGITAL INFORMATION FACTORY
>
>
> Washington, D.C.--The Government Printing Office, which recently reported
> strong operating results for its last fiscal year, today announced the
> publication of A Strategic Vision for the 21st Century, which sets forth
> the agency's plans to transform itself from a 19th century, heavy-metal
> printing operation into a nimble 21st century digital information factory.
>
> "We had to wake up. Last month 50% of all Government documents were born
> digital and will never be printed by the Government. But the GPO is still
> required by law to gather and catalog these electronic documents, to
> distribute them electronically, and to ensure their perpetual availability
> to the public," said Bruce James, Public Printer of the United States.
> "This task calls for a whole new set of skills and tools; what we call a
> digital information factory."
>
> Central to GPO's plans is trading its existing building complex for new
> facilities, sized and equipped for its digital future. "Rather than
> burden taxpayers with the enormous costs of building and equipping our
> operations for the future, we believe that we can use the proceeds from
> the private redevelopment of our current obsolete plant to completely pay
> the costs of new facilities and still have money left over to return to
> the U.S. Treasury," James said.
>
> The GPO's strategic vision also calls for the reorganization of the agency
> around six core lines of business ranging from Digital Media Services to
> Security and Intelligent Documents. Each business line is to be
> supervised by a general manager who will have complete responsibility for
> the operations and financial success of their unit.
>
> As it has since 1861, the GPO will continue to manage the content creation
> of the official journals of Government, such as the Congressional Record
> and Federal Register, and will print these and other documents for
> Congress in its new facilities. But, the majority of the Federal
> Government's printing requirements will continue to be purchased in the
> private sector through a competitive bidding process. Last year, the GPO,
> which buys 600 to 1,000 printing jobs a day, awarded contracts to 2,568
> vendors, that were located in every state in the country.
>
> "We see the Government's printing requirements changing dramatically in
> the next few years. Not only will fewer titles be printed, but the
> quantities will drop as more Government information is accessed through
> the internet. Within a few years we will no longer order copies for
> warehouse storage and later fulfillment, instead relying on demand
> printing, where our vendors print one copy for each individual customer's
> order," said Jim Bradley, GPO's Managing Director of Customer Services
>
> Judy Russell, Superintendent of Documents at GPO, is responsible for the
> dissemination of both printed and electronic documents to the public. "To
> fully serve the needs of our library partners and the public for finding
> and using Government information on the Internet, we will need to go back
> in time. We are proposing to begin with the Federalist Papers and
> digitize all significant federal documents following a set of standards
> that will allow users to search the Web for authentic Federal
> information," said Russell.
>
> For more information or to view GPO's A Strategic Vision for the 21st
> Century or the 2004 Annual Report, please visit:
> http://www.gpo.gov/congressional/index.html
> <http://www.gpo.gov/congressional/index.html> .
>
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