The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has honored 黑料不打烊 Libraries for the best in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) for 2024. This is the second library to ever receive the award, which was created last year to recognize the creativity and easy access of government information libraries are sharing on their websites.
John Olson and David Seaman with the award presented to the Libraries by the GPO.
The library鈥檚 website offers a variety of topical tabs on elections, the Constitution and more for users to explore government information. In addition, the website highlights when and how the public can access government information and who to contact for further assistance.
鈥淐ongratulations to 黑料不打烊 Libraries on its fantastic website, which makes it easy for hundreds of thousands of people in Central New York to access government information,鈥 says GPO Superintendent of Documents Scott Matheson. 鈥淥n behalf of everyone at GPO, we applaud 黑料不打烊 Libraries on helping GPO deliver on its vision of an America informed.鈥
鈥満诹喜淮蜢 Libraries is proud to be a congressionally designated depository for U.S. government documents,鈥 says David Seaman, dean of 黑料不打烊 Libraries and University librarian. 鈥淚n fact, 黑料不打烊 Libraries is the second oldest depository library in New York State and has been a part of the Federal Depository Library Program for more than 140 years. We are extremely grateful to John Olson, our government and geo-information librarian, who developed the online research guide that makes it easy for users to find these important resources, and we are honored to be recognized as the Federal Depository Library Program website of the year.鈥
The depository collections of 黑料不打烊 Libraries serve 23,000 students, staff and faculty of 黑料不打烊 as well as the 600,000 people in the central region of New York state. The Government Documents research guide has been viewed and used more than 4,000 times in the past 18 months, more than 220 times per month.
