As part of GPO’s partnership with the Law Library of Congress to digitize the United States Congressional Serial Set and make the volumes available in GovInfo, Library Services and Content Management (LSCM) posts the MARC records of the U.S. Catalog of Government Publications (CGP) in this repository. For more information about the Serial Set Project, please visit the Digitizing the United States Congressional Serial Set page on FDLP.gov.
This repository contains three files:
- A cumulative file of all project records in the CGP
- 30,209 records (30,007 monographs | 202 serials)
- 8,600 KB (Zipped)
- A file of the most recently added CGP records
- 16,498 records (16,402 monographs | 96 serials)
- 4,016 KB (Zipped)
- A cumulative list of the volumes represented in the CGP records
- Please note: this list does not include the volume numbers of serial issues
The records are also available in MARC UTF-8 in the cataloging-records-serial-set-utf8 repository. LSCM staff members analyzed and reviewed the records as a whole and batch processed global updates and enhancements. The publications range in date from 1817 (15th Congress) to 1984 (98th Congress). All records have Superintendent of Documents classification numbers for the Congressional publication series and Serial Set series and OCLC numbers. The records do not contain Federal Depository Library Program item numbers.
The records are discoverable in the CGP via the Congressional Serial Set Catalog and the standard search modes. In the expert search mode, you can use a local field search to retrieve all of the Serial Set records and combine that search with other metadata elements: wlts=SERIALSET?
When downloading files from the repository, all files in the repository are included in the downloaded zip file.
- In the top right-hand section of this page, click on the “Code” button.
- Click on “Download ZIP.”
- A ZIP file with all files in the repository will be downloaded.
- Unzip the file with a zip utility.
The zip file can also be downloaded directly at this link: https://github.com/usgpo/cataloging-records-serial-set-marcxml/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
GitHub uses a versioning system to provide access to the iterations of a repository. This enables a user to return to the state of a repository before the various changes ("commits" in GitHub terminology) that were made to it.
To see a list of versions of the repository as a whole, follow these steps:
- Click or tap on "commits" in the top right-hand section of the page
- On the "Commits" page, choose the date of the version to be retrieved and then click or tap the "Browse the repository at this point in the history" link.
- The resources in the repository on that date will be available for viewing and downloading.
To see a list of versions of a particular collection, follow these steps:
- Click or tap on the name of a collection in the Collections List.
- Click or tap on "History" in the top right-hand corner of the collection page.
- On the "History" page, choose the date of the version to be retrieved.
- Click or tap on the "Browse the repository at this point in the history" icon.
- The main page of the repository on that date will be displayed.
- The resources in the repository on that date will be available for viewing and downloading.
LSCM develops and maintains other repositories:
- All CGP Records (MARC UTF-8)
- All CGP Records (MARC XML)
- CGP on GitHub
- CGP Geographic-Based Record Sets
- CGP Records Maintenance Files
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set Project (MARC UTF-8)
For questions and feedback about the repositories, collections, and resources, please submit inquiries via askGPO. Select the Federal Depository Library tile and then the Cataloging/Metadata (Policy and Records) category.