The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 26, June 29, 2003, Article 5

THE GOVERNMENT SOMETHING OFFICE

  Larry Mitchell sends this item about the U.S. Government
  Printing Office:  "The GPO, a 3,000-employee agency,
  gathers federal documents, organizes and publishes them,
  catalogs them and then distributes them to the 1,200
  depository libraries throughout the United States.

  'This year, for the first time, more than 50 percent of those
  documents will only be in digital,' James said. 'We will
  not print them. That's up from zero 10 years ago.'

  James, who became the 24th U.S. public printer six months
  ago, expects that within five years 95 percent of government
  documents will be available only in digital form."

  "The transformation into digital technology isn't the only
  change in store for the Government Printing Office, which is
  considering changing its name.

  ?I think our middle name might get in the way,?

  http://www.hillnews.com/news/062503/printer.aspx

  [I've haunted our local GPO store in the past looking for
   copies of recent mint reports, but they are rarely in stock.
   Online versions of recent reports have been available,
   although I haven't checked lately.  Have any of our readers
   been assembling a run of recent printed mint reports?
   These may be the last of the line. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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