William Boesch Named GPO Chief Financial Officer

U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) announces William (Bill) L. Boesch, Jr. as the agency’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). In this role, Boesch will administer and guide policy and oversight of the agency’s financial strategies and administrative support systems, personnel, and operations. He will serve as GPO’s principal financial liaison with the Appropriations Committees in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. Boesch has served as GPO Acting Chief Financial Officer since December 2018.

Boesch has been part of GPO’s Finance department for nearly 40 years. He joined the agency in 1979. Since then, he has been intricately involved in managing GPO’s finances, including budgeting, financial audits, accounting, and financial reporting. Positions he has held at GPO include several account analyst positions, Assistant Comptroller, Comptroller, Deputy CFO, and Acting Chief Financial Officer. Before arriving at GPO, Boesch worked for the U.S. Army and private accounting and data processing companies. He is a native of Baltimore, MD and is the fourth generation in his family to work in the printing and publishing industry.

“I congratulate Bill on his promotion as Chief Financial Officer,” said GPO Acting Deputy Director John Crawford. “With four decades of experience working in GPO finances, he is an invaluable asset to the agency, and I can think of no one better fit to take on this role.”
Boesch holds a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Baltimore (UB) and has completed graduate work at both the UB and George Washington University.

FDLP and C&I Scope Policy Revised

On April 9, 2019 the Superintendent of Documents issued SOD-PPS-2019-1, Scope of Government Information Products Included in the Cataloging and Indexing Program and Disseminated Through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). This policy became effective April 10, 2019 and it supersedes SOD-PPS-2016-1, a policy with the same subject.

With this revision, the scope policy now explicitly states that Federal information products protected by copyright are in scope of the Cataloging and Indexing Program. Works that are both protected by copyright and for which the Government does not have rights to publish or otherwise use the work for Federal purposes, are not in scope of the FDLP.

Additionally, the scope policy now reaffirms our cataloging practice of creating a note in bibliographic records when copyright information is available. An example in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications:

Title:  Our national cemetery: a place of honor, a place of valor, a place of remembrance
SuDoc Class:  D 1.2:N 19/4
Item no.:  0306
CGP System no.: 000862468

Five Libraries Sign Preservation Steward Agreements With GPO

Arthur Lakes Library, Idaho State University Libraries, Felix G. Woodward Library, Jerome Hall Law Library, and Salmon Library each signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) to become Preservation Stewards. Under this agreement, the libraries pledge to permanently preserve print collections of the following:
Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines

• Publications from the U.S. Geological Survey
• Publications from the U.S. Bureau of Mines
• Publications from the Department of Energy
• Publications from the Energy Research and Development Administration

Idaho State University Libraries

• Handbook of North American Indians and the Congressional Record and its predecessors

Felix G. Woodward Library, Austin Peay State University

• Publications related to the 101^st Airborne Division

Jerome Hall Law Library, Indiana University

• Code of Federal Regulations
• U.S. Reports
• Statutes at Large
• U.S. Code
• Revised Statutes
• Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
• Public Papers of the Presidents
• The Congressional Record and its predecessors
• Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

Salmon Library, University of Alabama in Huntsville

• NASA History Series publications

To help Federal depository libraries meet the needs of efficient Government document stewardship in the digital era, GPO has established Preservation Stewards to support continued public access to historic U.S. Government documents in print format. Preservation Stewards contribute significantly to the effort to preserve printed documents, and GPO welcomes all Federal depository libraries that wish to participate as Preservation Stewards.
“GPO welcomes these five new libraries as Preservation Stewards and their commitment to maintaining Government information in multiple platforms,” said Superintendent of Documents Laurie Hall. “I encourage more libraries to become part of this venture of preserving valuable print collections of Government information.”