Thursday, March 09, 2006

New and Improved CGP

From the Government Printing Office (GPO) press release: "The Superintendent of Documents is pleased to announce the launch of the enhanced version of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) (http://catalog.gpo.gov/). This version of the CGP is the online public access catalog (OPAC) module of the Government Printing Office's (GPO) new integrated library system. With the availability of the new CGP Phase 1 of a larger modernization plan to replace older legacy systems is complete.

"The new and improved CGP currently offers more than 500,000 records to both historical and current Government publications. These records have been created or updated since July 1976. Plans are underway to include records for publications dating back to the late 1800s."

Try out the new Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). Records for all documents sent to libraries through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) from 1976 through the present are included in the catalog.

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