Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Happy anniversary, GPO!

From the U.S. Government Publishing Office Facebook page:

"For the very first time on this day in 1895, U.S. Government documents, including 11 congressional publications, were shipped from GPO to Federal depository libraries."

Happy anniversary, GPO! 

[Update:  Or was it? After some discussion of this on the NIDL listserv, it seems Northwestern University Library was designated a 
federal depositoryin 1876? And GPO confirmed this with a certificate for their 140th anniversary a couple years ago. So...somebody got something wrong one of these two times?]

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