Downloadable MARC records from the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
The CGP on GitHub is a repository of cataloging/metadata resources extracted from the bibliographic records of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). The CGP is the U.S. Government Publishing Office's (GPO) finding tool for publications of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches, and other entities of the U.S. Federal Government. The CGP records comprise the National Collection of U.S. Government Public Information and contain descriptive and subject information to enable the discovery of these resources. Many CGP records provide PURL (persistent uniform resource locator) links to the online versions of publications. For more information, please visit the CGP help pages.
Library Technical Services (LTS) has moved two collections to the new repository, Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) Records Maintenance Files:
The twelve collections in the repository have been created based on various criteria, such as issuing agencies, publication formats, and topical and chronological coverage. All collections contain one or more of these resources:
To download the files, use the "Code" button in the right-hand section of this page and select "Download ZIP." The ZIP file contains all of the files in the repository.
LTS has retired these collections:
Please check the list to see if the collections are available in another repository.
Name | No. of Records | Current Repository | Record Formats | Cataloging Dates |
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CGP MARC Record Sets | 22,176 | Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) Records Maintenance Files | All | Previous six months |
CGP Records with Updated PURLs | 170,501 | None | Online | Up to 10/31/2020 |
Online Version Records without Item Numbers | 4,959 | Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) Records Maintenance Files | Online | All |
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:
To see a list of versions of a particular collection, follow these steps:
LSCM develops and maintains other repositories:
Library Services & Content Management (LSCM) of the U.S. Government Publishing Office created this repository. Library Technical Services (LTS), a department of LSCM, creates and maintains the collections in the repository.
Please send your feedback and questions about our repository and records to LTS by submitting an inquiry in the Cataloging/Metadata (Policy and Records) category via askGPO.