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Self Study and Inspection Information
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has the responsibility to ensure that the resources it distributes to Federal depository libraries are made accessible to the general public. To fulfill this legal requirement, GPO personnel assess the operations and services at individual Federal depository libraries. The Public Access Assessments program was established in 2007, succeeding the previous iteration of GPO’s individual library assessment through the Inspection program. This updated assessment program, which reflects the greater service orientation of depository libraries today in a more electronic environment, continues to allow libraries to have the flexibility to determine their own depository processes in support of the FDLP.
GPO has begun to issue revised Self-Study of a Federal Depository Library modules. They can be found in the Tutorials section on the FDLP Desktop. These modules are for oluntary use and are not required prior to Public Access Assessment by GPO. The new Self-Study is designed to enable depository coordinators to become more familiar with their depository operations and to determine areas needing improvement or change.
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