5/4/2010 Note: GPO staff at the Spring 2010 meeting of the Depository Library Council were reported as asking people to use askGPO instead of their lostdocs form. The instructions below have been revised to reflect this. The lostdocs form address is kept in strikethrough because it may return in a revised form.
10/25/2011 Update: According to GPO all Lost Docs should be reported through the Lost Docs Reporting Form on the FDLP Desktop at http://www.fdlp.gov/collection-tools/lostdocs.
Reporting fugitive documents to GPO allows them to be cataloged and archived so their contents are not lost to history. Not all federal documents are within the scope of the FDLP, but nearly any published federal document qualifies for GPO’s national bibliography.
Help out GPO and your fellow government documents enthusiasts by reporting fugitive documents and let us know you did so. How? Follow these simple instructions:
- Make sure your government document is a US Federal title. GPO only catalogs publications of the US federal government.
- Search the title of your item in the Catalog of Government Publications (CGP).
- If you don’t find your item in the CGP, then search this blog by using the search box in the upper left hand corner. If you find your item here, use the comments link to add any additonal information you might have about the item.
- If you don’t find your item in the CGP or this blog, fill out GPO’s Lost Docs Reporting Form at http://www.fdlp.gov/
collections/collection-tools/ lostdocs provide as much information about the document as you know. GPO will e-mail you a receipt. - When you receive GPO’s e-mail, e-mail your receipt to lostdocs@freegovinfo.info
- OPTIONAL: If you use delicious, please tag the document with “IADeposit”
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#1 by Linda Zellmer on February 18, 2011 - 9:40 am
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Hello,
I just found this new USDA Publication on the USDA web site (and promptly reported it to AskGPO as a Lost Doc):
Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America
URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/ruralatlas/
Interesting interactive mapping site. I am also adding it to our U.S. Online Atlases site at: http://www.wiu.edu/library/govpubs/maps/maps_web.sphp?id=123
#2 by Linda Zellmer on October 25, 2011 - 3:54 am
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New Lost Document
There is a new poster from USGS that they were giving away for free at the Geological Society of America meeting. Hopefully you can get them for distribution through the FDLP. It is titled: Bicentennial of the 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquake sequence, December 2011- February 1212. There is an OCLC record for it (700524962). It is presently owned by the two USGS Libraries (although since I picked up a copy, WIU will own it soon too). URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/118/
However, it would be great if this was issued to depositories in the midwest in HARD COPY!!
#3 by Jenny Groome on January 21, 2017 - 9:02 am
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I am trying to report that I found 2015 Presidential Transition documents in CGP, 2008 in FirstSearch – but 2016 only in USA.gov. I used FDLP Desktop form Do I need to do more?
OPM 2016 Presidential Transition Guide https://www.opm.gov/about-us/our-people-organization/support-functions/executive-secretariat/#url=Presidential-Transition
and
USA.gov (?) page for Presidential Transition Directory 2016 https://presidentialtransition.usa.gov/
#4 by jrjacobs on May 24, 2017 - 7:59 am
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Hi Jenny. Good find! The lostdocs form on fdlp.gov is the place to start for sure. And don’t forget to send your lostdocs receipt to lostdocs AT freegovinfo DOT info. We’ll post your found documents here.
#5 by Jenny Groome on March 27, 2018 - 7:53 am
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Feedback sent to GPO.
The fiche is in CGP, but NASA History site now has PDF posted at: history.nasa.gov/monograph6.pdf
CGP recorf for fiche:
Title Women in flight research at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center from 1946 to 1995 [microform] /
Author LinkPowers, Sheryll Goecke.
Publisher Info. Washington, D.C. : NASA History Office, NASA Headquarters ; [Springfield, Va. : National Information Technical Service, distributor], 1997.
SuDoc Number LinkNAS 1.15:112715
Item Number Link0830-D (MF)
Description 1 v.
Series Link( NASA technical memorandum ; 112715.)
Link( Monographs in aerospace history ; no. 6.)
General Note Shipping list no.: 98-0613-M.
Subject – NASA LinkEngineers.
LinkFemales.
LinkHistories.
LinkIn-flight monitoring.
LinkNASA programs.
Added Entry LinkUnited States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. History Office.
Holdings All items
Locate in a Library (MF) http://catalog.gpo.gov/fdlpdir/locate.jsp?ItemNumber=0830-D&SYS=000513280
OCLC Number (OCoLC)42694193
ocm42694193
CGP Record Link https://catalog.gpo.gov/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000513280&local_base=GPO01PUB http://catalog.gpo.gov:443/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000513280&local_base=GPO01PUB
System Number 000513280
#6 by Jenny Groome on January 4, 2019 - 10:19 am
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submitted to GPO today. But:
2016 Presidential Transition Directory no longer online https://web.archive.org/web/20170719220004/https://presidentialtransition.usa.gov/
And
NPS document:
Coltsville : special resource study
Print and CD ROM
WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/600096114
Online at http://www.hartfordinfo.org/issues/wsd/history/final_coltsville_report.pdf
CT State Library has a copy in our LC Stacks – not in FDLP collection.
#7 by Jenny Groome on January 7, 2019 - 7:54 am
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Hi – I reported a document last week (here & GPO) and am not certain how to give you the GPO update on it. Email me please if putting it here doesn’t work.
Email from GPO:
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FDLP or just GPO fugitive doc?
Discussion Thread
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Response Via Email(David Hitchings) – 01/07/2019 10:19 AM
Hello Jenny Groome:
An EL/pcc-level record has been created for the title: Coltsville (OCLC 1081039162; CGP 1090328). The PURL for this record is: https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo114393 (https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo114393) .
I have also updated/added linking fields to the print (OCLC 600096114) and CD-ROM (OCLC 600096175) versions of this title.
Thank you for contacting the U.S. Government Publishing Office and your continued support of the Federal Depository Library Program. If you have any questions or need further assistance, please feel free to contact me.