GPO Updates Its Official History with New Edition of 'Keeping America Informed'
WASHINGTON — August 26, 2016 — The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has released its updated official history, "Keeping America Informed / The U.S. Government Publishing Office / A Legacy of Service to the Nation" (Washington DC: GPO, 2016). Originally published in 2011 on the occasion of its 150th anniversary, the new edition of Keeping America Informed has been prepared to coincide with the agency’s 155th anniversary under its new name — the Government Publishing Office.
The new edition adds a variety of new information: the close relationship GPO had with President Lincoln, the agency’s experience with the segregation imposed on the Federal workforce during the Woodrow Wilson Administration, a long-forgotten proposal to build a Government paper mill, GPO’s production of the transcripts of Presidential tape recordings during the Watergate crisis, and other events and milestones. It even has a new section on GPO’s appearance in movies and on TV over the years. New photographs have been added, and the book brings the agency’s history up to date to 2016.
"We are pleased to offer this new edition of Keeping America Informed to everyone who is interested in the history of the GPO and the essential role it plays in bringing transparency to the workings of our Federal Government," says GPO Director Davita Vance-Cooks. "The agency is indebted to the work of our historian, Mr. George Barnum, who edited the new book, and to its designer, Mr. Dean Gardei," she said, adding, "No history of the GPO would be complete without telling the story of the men and women who have worked here and who continue to serve the GPO’s critically important mission of Keeping America Informed. It’s to them that this book is truly dedicated."
Copies of Keeping America Informed are being distributed to Federal depository libraries nationwide and can be ordered online from GPO's bookstore for $38.
About the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO)
GPO is the Federal Government's official, digital, secure resource for producing, procuring, cataloging, indexing, authenticating, disseminating, and preserving the official information products of the U.S. Government. The GPO is responsible for the production and distribution of information products and services for all three branches of the Federal Government, including U.S. passports for the Department of State as well as the official publications of Congress, the White House, and other Federal agencies in digital and print formats. GPO provides for permanent public access to Federal Government information at no charge through www.govinfo.gov, partnerships with approximately 1,150 libraries nationwide participating in the Federal Depository Library Program, and our secure online bookstore.
Source: GPO.
