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DEPOSITORY INDEX

Number of libraries in the Federal Depository Library Program:
1,391

Amount of Congressionally appropriated funds spent by the
Government Printing Office on the Federal Depository Library
Program in 1994: $28,000,000

Percent of the Legislative Branch budget this represents: 1

Percent of the entire Federal budget this represents:
less than 0.002

Number of titles distributed to depository libraries in 1994:
64,851

Number of titles in electronic format: 306

Number of copies of publications distributed through the FDLP
in 1994: 20,615,030

Percent in microfiche: 58

Average number of depository shipments per hour sent out by GPO:
212

Number of items cataloged by GPO in 1994: 33,577

Average cost of printing, cataloging, and distributing each
publication shipped to depository libraries: $1

Percent of GPO's overall printing contracted to the private
sector printing industry: 75

Rank by volume of printing of the Federal Register among titles
printed by GPO in-house: 1

Percent of microfiche distribution contracted to the
private sector: 98

Estimated number of people with access to the Internet worldwide:
30,000,000

Estimated number with access to the World Wide Web: 3,000,000

Number of newspaper and magazine articles containing the term
"world wide web" in 1993: 51

Number in 1994: 2,558

Percent of depository libraries with Internet access in 1993: 53

Percent in 1994: 80

Percent of depository libraries reporting daily use of
electronic products: 76

Percent of American households with a personal computer: 36

Number of the 535 Members of Congress with electronic mail: 50

Compiled by the American Library Association Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) Legislation Committee, March 1995.
Format style adapted from "Harper's Index" and used with permission.

Sources:
  1. Government Printing Office, Library Programs Service
  2. Administrative Notes, vol. 15, no. 14 (November 15, 1994)
  3. Budget of the United States, Appendix, Fiscal Year 1996
  4. Budget Appendix
  5. GPO, LPS
  6. AdNotes
  7. GPO, LPS
  8. GPO, LPS
  9. GPO, Depository Distribution Division
  10. AdNotes
  11. GPO Annual Report, 1993
  12. GPO Annual Report
  13. GPO Annual Report
  14. GPO Annual Report
  15. New York Times, January 3, 1995
  16. New York Times, September 25, 1994
  17. Lexis/Nexis
  18. Lexis/Nexis
  19. Biennial Survey, 1993
  20. Electronic Capabilities of Federal Depository Libraries, Summer 1994
  21. Electronic Capabilities of FDLs
  22. National Journal, January 21, 1995
  23. Roanoke Times & World News, February 27, 1995