Kennickell R E
J Am Soc Inf Sci. 1987 Jan;38(1):68-70. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198701)38:1<68::AID-ASI13>3.0.CO;2-L.
Official printer and sales agent for publications of the Federal government, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) receives typed and electronic manuscripts from virtually every agency of government. Either in house or through commercial procurement, GPO provides typesetting, printing, and binding services to produce finished publications. GPO also disseminates these publications through the 1400 Depository Libraries and the Superintendent of Documents Sales Program. GPO employs an hierarchical marketing system which helps assure public exposure for every sales program title, while assigning increasing levels of promotion for titles with the greatest sales potential. As a trend, GPO sees fewer consumer-oriented publications and more professional-use titles. GPO also observes a new appreciation of the value of government statistical information, and increased agency efforts to provide improved public access to this data. GPO is working with publishing agencies and information-technology suppliers to study ways of accommodating demand for electronic information dissemination.
作为联邦政府出版物的官方印刷商和销售代理，美国政府印刷局（GPO）接收来自几乎每个政府机构的打印稿件和电子稿件。GPO通过内部或商业采购，提供排版、印刷和装订服务以制作成品出版物。GPO还通过1400家托存图书馆和文件销售主管计划来传播这些出版物。GPO采用分级营销系统，这有助于确保每个销售计划的图书都能面向公众，同时为具有最大销售潜力的图书分配更高水平的推广。作为一种趋势，GPO发现面向消费者的出版物减少，而专业用途的图书增多。GPO还注意到对政府统计信息价值的重新认识，以及各机构为改善公众获取这些数据所做的更多努力。GPO正在与出版机构和信息技术供应商合作，研究满足电子信息传播需求的方法。
