FDLP

Notable Numbers

GPO’s Library Services & Content Management contributes to and supports four statutory programs:

  • The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP)
  • The Cataloging & Indexing Program (C&I)
  • The International Exchange Service (IES)
  • The By-Law Program

Notable numbers provides a snapshot of the work done to support these programs.

  • There are 1,115 libraries in the FDLP.
  • In FDLP eXchange, there are 280 libraries offering in 47 regions.
  • Since the inception of ‘GPO on the Go’ in January 2015, GPO staff have visited 627 depository libraries in 50 states and the District of Columbia.
  • There are 42 libraries serving as Preservation Stewards.
  • There is 1 library serving as a Digital Preservation Steward.
  • There are 3 libraries serving as Cataloging and Metadata Contributors.
  • There are 15 libraries serving as Digital Access Partners
  • There are 5 libraries serving as Digital Content Contributors.
  • FDLP LibGuides has had more than 41,264 views to the 150 guides offered.
  • The FDLP Academy has hosted 494 webinars, with more than 59,000 combined registrants.
  • FDLP conferences and events have hosted 7,016 virtual registrants since 2012.
  • GPO has increased the size of the FDLP Web Archive collection to 26.9 TB, with over 235,000,000 URLs crawled.

FY 2020 Statistics (Current from October 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020)

  • 205 Federal depository libraries, or 18% of all depositories, are participating in the Cataloging Record Distribution Program.
  • Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government saw 344,032 user sessions.
  • FDLP.gov saw 147,449 user sessions.
  • There have been 16,935,678 successful searches of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP).
LSCM staff have:
  • Added 15,956 new cataloging records to the CGP, of which 12,395 (or 77%) contained PURLs to full-text publications.
  • Checked in 12,812 serial issues to the CGP and created 200 publication patterns for serial titles.
  • Identified 3,549 previously-uncataloged Serial & Integrated Resource (IR) titles and created new bibliographic records.
  • Responded to 3,257 askGPO inquiries.
Program for Cooperative Cataloging Statistics:
  • Authority records: 1,058 authority records created & updated.
    • NACO: 1,030 name authority records created & updated.
    • SACO: 28 subject authority records created & updated.
  • BIBCO: 5,399 records created.
  • CONSER:
    • Newly authenticated CONSER records: 1,306.
    • Changed CONSER records: 153.