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GPO Completes Digitization of 1,300 Congressional Hearings

11/06/19  The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has digitized more than 1,300 historical Congressional Hearings dating back to 1958 and made them available on govinfo, GPO’s one-stop site to authentic, published Government information.

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GPO and Law Library of Congress Will Digitize Nation's Most Treasured Publication

10/22/19  The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), in collaboration with the Law Library of Congress, has started a large multi-year effort to digitize and make accessible volumes of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set back to the first volume, which was published in 1817.

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President Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Hugh Nathanial Halpern as GPO Director

10/16/19  On October 15th President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate Hugh Nathanial Halpern as Director of the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO). The Director serves as the chief executive officer of the agency, which opened on March 4, 1861.

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GPO Produces U.S. Code with New Digital Publishing Technology

09/24/19  U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has taken a major step forward in the modernization of its publishing systems by beginning to publish the 2018 main edition of the United States Code through XPub, the agency’s new digital technology for XML-based publishing. With the implementation of XPub,

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Four Libraries Sign Preservation Steward Agreements with GPO

08/07/19  Georgia Southern University Libraries, Syracuse University Libraries, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, and Lether E. Frazar Memorial Library each signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) to become Preservation Stewards.

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GPO Digitizes Public Papers of the Presidents

07/10/19  U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) and the National Archives’ Office of the Federal Register (OFR) have digitized volumes of The Public Papers of the Presidents for Presidents Herbert Hoover (1929) through George H.W. Bush (1990), with the exception of the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency.

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