DePaul Hosts State Librarian & U.S. Superintendent of Documents at FDLP Launch

The DePaul University Library announced their designation as the newest member of the Federal Library Depository Program (FLDP) Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, in the Scholar’s Lab of the John T. Richardson Library. As a member of the FLDP, the DePaul University Library joins more than 1,200 other libraries around the world in promoting access to resources and tools provided by the United States government. The online information will be available to the entire DePaul community as well as the public, and will include the latest government data, including information from the U.S. Census Bureau, the newest public laws approved by Congress and even the daily compilation of presidential documents. (DePaul University/Jamie Moncrief)

DePaul University launched its “digital depository” program with a reception (and instructional session) on November 13, 2015. Guests including U.S. Superintendent of Documents Mary Alice Baish, Illinois Secretary of State (and State Librarian) Jesse White, and DePaul University President Dennis Holtschneider joined faculty, students, and FDLP colleagues from around the City of Chicago to highlight the value of government information in teaching, learning, and research across the curriculum, as well as the place of FDLP membership in the university’s community engagement agenda. In keeping with its focus on teaching (and timed to support final exams and papers), DePaul librarians and library staff opened the reception with an instructional session highlighting key government information resources. For more information on government information resources at DePaul, visit our research guides. For more highlights from the program, see the story on Newsline.

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