[Web4lib] Government Documents Videos / Request for Video Software/Tutorial recommendations

[Grace-Ellen McCrann]

20 December 2006

Dear Everybody.

Every State has at least one Regional Federal 
Depository Library who get 100% of the documents 
available through the Government Printing Office 
[GPO].

Every Congressional District has at least one 
Selective Federal Depository Library. Selective 
Depositories choose the documents that they 
receive from the GPO's available list. 

The percentage of documents chosen varies with 
each Selective Depository and generally reflects 
that library's size and patron base/interests.

Not every document published by a Federal
agency/department/commission, etc. is included 
in the Depository programme, though most of the 
major documents/series of documents are included 
in the programme. 

Therefore, even Regional Depositories only get 
100% of what the GPO offers ... not 100% of 
what is published under government auspices.

Depository documents come in a variety of 
formats, print, online, CD-Rom, DVD, maps, 
microfiche, etc.

Some titles are produced in more than one format. 
Examples would be current public laws and 
current Congressional hearings. These types 
of documents are currently produced in both 
print versions as well in as online formats.

Some documents are produced in only one 
format.

GPO maintains an online catalogue of docs at:
http://catalog.gpo.gov/F

The online catalogue includes docs from July 
1976 onwards and is updated every business day.
GPO does have plans to add records for 
docs going back to the late 1800's, but of 
course the enormous size of such a project 
means it will be years before such a task can 
be completed.

Here at the City College of New York we are 
a 51% Selective Depository for current documents. 

We have been a depository since 1884 however,
so we have quite a large collection ... somewhere 
between 400,000 and 1/2 million docs.

Kind regards,

Grace-Ellen McCrann
Chief, Government Documents & Reference Divisions
The City College of New York
Cohen Library, 2nd floor
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
(212) 650 5073
gemscot at yahoo.com

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--- Jeremy Dunck <jdunck at gmail.com> wrote:

Questions that spring to mind:

Does every FDL have a complete set of all
artifacts?

Are FDL artifacts generally prose, or are there
data sets (or documents that lend themselves to 
OCR for data mining)?


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