Administrative Notes 

Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program

Vol. 28, no. 11-12 GP 3.16/3-2:28/11-12 Nov. 15/Dec. 15, 2007 

HIGHLIGHTS 

2008 Spring 

Council 

Meeting 1 

Employment 

Opportunity 

Assessment 

Specialist 1 

FDLP.gov Public 

Registration 2 

New Federal 

Depository 

Library 

Directory 3 

Court 

E-Records 4 

2007 Fall DLC 

Meeting 5 

Items 0556-C & 

1004-E 5 

2008 Spring Council Meeting Announced 

The Federal Depository Library Council Meeting will be held at the 

Westin Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, MO, from Monday, March 31 

to Wednesday, April 2. The meeting will begin on Monday with 

registration at 8:00 a.m. and wrap up Wednesday, April 2 at 5:00 p.m. An 

educational track will run in conjunction with the council sessions to 

provide an opportunity for peer sessions on topics of interest to the 

depository community. 

The Westin Crown Center Hotel is located at 1 East Pershing Road, 

Kansas City, Missouri 64108. Registration for the event and hotel 

reservations can be made from the event page located on the FDLP 

Desktop at http://www.fdlp.gov/events/spring08dlc.html. A limited 

number of sleeping rooms will be available at the prevailing government 

rate of $103.00 (plus 15% tax) for single or double. 

For additional event information, including links for the educational 

programs proposal form and vendor information, go to the FDLP Desktop 

at http://www.fdlp.gov/events/spring08dlc.html. 

Employment Opportunity: Librarian 

(Assessment Specialist) 

GPO is currently recruiting for the position of Librarian (Assessment 

Specialist). This position is in the GPO Central Office in Washington, DC, 

in the Office of Education and Outreach within Library Services and 

Content Management. 

For more information on this position, please see the vacancy 

announcement on GPO's web site: http://www.gpo.gov/careers/jobs/07-

403.pdf. 

Additional information on careers at GPO is available at: 

http://www.gpo.gov/careers/index.html. 

The application deadline is January 11, 2008. 
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FDLP.gov Public Registration Now Open 

Just in time for the New Year! The highly 

anticipated public registration for the 

FDLP.gov Desktop is now available. 

Note to those already registered on 

fdlp.gov: 

If you are already a registered user on 

fdlp.gov, please login to your profile since 

the “Full Name” field no longer exists. It is 

now separated by “First name” and “Last 

name” and all those already registered will 

need to edit their profiles. 

To begin your registration visit: 

http://www.fdlp.gov. 

• In the upper right-hand corner click 

on “Register.” Enter the information 

requested by the fields. 

• Username should ideally be your first 

initial and last name (e.g., ahasse) 

although it can be anything. It's 

advised to use something semiidentifiable for some features (e.g., 

Private Messaging). 

• Create a “good password.” A good 

password contains at least 6 

alphanumeric characters (e.g., if you 

wanted “Apples” to be your password, 

a better password for this would be 

“4ppl35” where vowels are changed 

to numbers). 

• Users must abide by our site's “terms 

and conditions.” 

• If you do not have a library number 

enter “N/A” in the “library number 

field.” 

• When complete, click on the “Send 

Registration” button at the bottom of 

the page. The page will show the 

“Registration Complete!” message. 

You will automatically receive a 

confirmation email that will come 

from: 

http://listserv.access.gpo.gov/cgibin/wa.exe?LOGON=A2%3Dind0712

%26L%3Dgpo-fdlpl%26T%3D0%26P%3D1035. There 

is a possibility that this message may 

be inadvertently blocked by spam 

blockers. You may want to contact 

your IT department to add fdlp.gov to 

your “white list.” 

• Once you receive and reply to this 

email you may go back to the 

http://www.fdlp.gov Web site and 

enter the username and password 

from the email. Then click on the 

“Login” button. The “User Menu” 

will appear at the top of the right hand 

column. 

• Next click “My Profile.” This allows 

you to edit your account settings. To 

update your information place your 

mouse on the “Edit” button and select 

“Update Your Profile” at the top left 

of your profile page. From the “Edit 

your Details” page you can explore 

further options for the feature-rich 

profile page by clicking the grey tabs 

on this page. 

Benefits of Creating an FDLP.gov account: 

• Easy registration for events 

(conferences, etc.). Once you fill out 

your profile, your contact information 

will be automatically blown into the 

registration forms for future events as 

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long as you keep it current. Of course, 

you will still be required to enter 

minor additional information when 

registering for events, but this will 

streamline the process. 

• Ability to “unregister” should you not 

be able to attend events you registered 

for. NOTE: If you register for the 

conference prior to registering for the 

Desktop then your profile will not 

show your conference registration. 

However, if you received an event 

confirmation email, you are 

registered. 

• Access to site features that are only 

available to registered users, (e.g., 

“Ordering Promotional Depository 

Materials”, Adding Calendar Events). 

• Other features that take advantage of 

your Desktop profile will launch in 

January. 

Introducing the New Federal Depository Library 

Directory (FDLD) 

Library Services and Content Management 

(LSCM) introduces the new Federal 

Depository Library Directory to the 

depository library community. All libraries 

are encouraged to review their directory 

information in December as part of the Phase 

1 launch of the new Federal Depository 

Library Directory. We ask that you complete 

your initial edits or review by January 11, 

2008, in preparation for the Phase 2 launch of 

the public search interface early in 2008. 

If you submitted directory changes during the 

Biennial Survey process by October 31, 2007, 

we ask that you simply review your entry to 

ensure that your changes are reflected. 

Access: 

You can access the directory to review your 

information at: 

http://catalog.gpo.gov/fdlpdir/login.jsp

Login: 

The username is your depository library 

number. The password is your internal FDLP 

password (the one you use for your 

Amendment to Item Selections). 

Detailed Instructions: LSCM is making 

available detailed information to assist you in 

this process. 

• “Pre-Public Launch Instructions” for 

the directory: 

http://www.fdlp.gov/fdld/instructions.

html

• Editing Guidelines, available once 

you log into the new directory and are 

in the editing mode: 

http://catalog.gpo.gov/fdlpdir/includes

/DATA%20ENTRY%20GUIDELINE

---FDLP.html 

• “FAQs”: 

http://www.fdlp.gov/fdld/faqs/index.h

tml

• Online OPAL presentation to provide 

detailed information about the 

directory database and special 

features: http://www.opalonline.org/fdld/

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Federal Depository Libraries Offer Free Access 

To Court E-Records 

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) 

and the Federal Depository Library Program 

(FDLP) have entered into a two-year pilot 

project with the Administrative Office of the 

U. S. Courts (AOUSC) to provide access to 

its PACER (Public Access to Court 

Electronic Records) service. 

The PACER system can provide remote 

access to case and docket information from 

the Federal Courts via the Internet. Records 

include information from the Appellate, 

District and Bankruptcy Courts. Users of 

PACER are able to access information about 

a case including the names of all the parties, 

judges and attorneys involved in the case, 

case history and status as well as many of the 

documents submitted by the parties to the 

court. 

Seventeen depositories, representing diverse 

types and sizes of libraries as well as different 

geographic locations, were selected to take 

part in the PACER pilot. With these libraries 

promoting the PACER service to the public, 

we anticipate the pilot will determine that 

Federal depository library access to PACER 

expands usage to those who currently do not 

have it available to them or would be 

inhibited by going to a court house to use the 

service. 

The Federal depository libraries participating 

in the PACER pilot are: 

• Alaska State Court Law Library 

(Alaska) 

• Sacramento County Public Law 

Library, (California) 

• San Bernardino County Law Library 

(California) 

• Library of Congress/Law Library of 

Congress (District of Columbia) 

• Nova Southeastern University Law 

Library (Florida) 

• 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 

Library (Illinois) 

• Northern Kentucky University Steely 

Library/Chase Law Library 

• (Kentucky) 

• Portland Public Library (Maine) 

• University of Michigan Law School 

Library (Michigan) 

• Wayne State University Arthur Neef 

Law Library, (Michigan) 

• Rutgers University, Newark Law 

Library (New Jersey) 

• New Mexico Supreme Court Law 

Library (New Mexico) 

• Fordham University School of Law 

Leo T. Kissam Memorial Library 

(New York) 

• State Library of Ohio (Ohio) 

• Rogers State University Stratton 

Taylor Library (Oklahoma) 

• University of Tennessee College of 

Law Joel A. Katz Law Library 

(Tennessee) 

• Lee College Library (Texas) 

The Government Printing Office thanks these 

libraries, and the other Federal depository 

libraries that volunteered for the pilot project, 

for their enthusiasm to provide PACER to 

their users. For more information about the 

project please contact Cindy Etkin at 

cetkin@gpo.gov. 

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2007 Fall DLC Meeting Proceedings Now Online 

The proceedings from the Fall 2007 Federal 

Depository Library Conference and 

Depository Library Council Meeting are now 

available at 

http://www.fdlp.gov/events/fall07dlc.html. 

Items 0556-C & 1004-E Used for All Libraries 

Please Do Not Deselect!

GPO uses Item numbers 0556-C and 1004-E 

to distribute a title to all depository libraries. 

Item 1004-E is used for Congressional 

materials while 0556-C is used for materials 

from executive and judicial branch agencies, 

GPO and other legislative branch agencies. 

Libraries should not drop either of these item 

numbers from their item selection profile. 

Items 0556-C and 1004-E have been restored 

to the item selection profiles of those libraries 

that recently deselected them. 

GPO follows Superintendent of Documents 

Policy 301, “Dissemination/Distribution 

Policy for the Federal Depository Library 

Program” 

(http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/coll

-dev/sod301.pdf) to decide in what format a 

document is to be distributed. 

In deciding whether a publication will go to 

all libraries, subjective factors come into 

play, including the intended audience of the 

publication, national relevancy of the subject 

matter, physical format, and requested 

distribution scope of the authoring agency. 

Many titles sent to all libraries are also sold 

by GPO. 

Questions? 

If you have questions or comments on any of the content in Administrative Notes, please send them to askGPO, the 

online help service at: 

http://gpo.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/gpo.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php

To ensure that your question is routed to the correct area, please choose the category “Federal Depository Libraries” 

and the appropriate subcategory, if any. 

You may also contact the GPO Customer Contact Center at 866-512-1800 (Toll-free), or at 202-512-1800 (DC 

Metropolitan Area), Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m., EST. 

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Table of Contents 

2008 Spring Council Meeting Announced ................................................................................... 1 

Employment Opportunity: Librarian (Assessment Specialist) ..................................................... 1 

FDLP.gov Public Registration Now Open.................................................................................... 2 

Introducing the New Federal Depository Library Directory (FDLD) .......................................... 3 

Federal Depository Libraries Offer Free Access To Court E-Records......................................... 4 

2007 Fall DLC Meeting Proceedings Now Online....................................................................... 5 

Items 0556-C & 1004-E Used for All Libraries - Please Do Not Deselect!................................. 5 

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