1. Purpose

The FDLP Community site is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) that is designed to serve as a communication platform for the Federal depository library community. It is not intended as a forum to debate GPO policies or practices with the GPO and users should not expect responses, comments, or replies to content directed at GPO.

2. Submission Guidelines

Site participation is limited to members of the Federal depository library community. To participate in the site, complete the site's registration form. All submissions are screened before approval. Once a registration submission has been approved, users must confirm their request via email in order to officially activate their account.

3. Prohibitions

The only prohibitions will be on uncivil discourse, profane and personal attacks, or other matters of distaste or indiscretion. In short, if you wouldn't say it at your library staff meeting, don't say it here.

4. Site Moderation

The FDLP Community site is self-moderating by the FDLP community. GPO reserves the right to edit or delete submissions that are deemed inappropriate per this policy. Content can also be flagged as inappropriate by users, which is then reviewed by GPO personnel. In the case of a violation, GPO will enforce this policy by editing or deleting the offensive submission and possibly suspend or deactivate the offending user's account.

5. Disclaimer

GPO provides the FDLP Community site solely as a service to the Federal depository library community to provide a communication platform to better connect our user community. The views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect those of GPO. GPO complies with all applicable laws and regulations relating to non-discrimination against individual users, but reserves the right to edit or delete any post or comment flagged by either GPO or the user community as inappropriate. Users are solely and fully responsible for their submissions, and all posted comments express the views/opinions of the submitter, not GPO.

Postings and comments on this site may include hypertext links to outside sites and organizations, both public and private. Users who choose to link to an outside Web site consent to the privacy and security policies of the owners and/or sponsors of the outside Web site. Use of copyrighted materials is the sole responsibility of the submitter and those who provide comments are responsible for the copyright of the text they provide.

For users following those links, GPO cannot guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of information contained on a Web site outside of the GPO domain, nor does GPO necessarily endorse any organizations sponsoring linked Web sites, or the views expressed, or the products and/or services they offer.

6. Privacy Policy

When a user browses, reads pages, or downloads information from the FDLP Community site, information is automatically gathered and stored about the visit ("Information"). This Information never identifies the user personally. The Information collected and stored includes:

• the Internet domain from which the blog is accessed;
• the type of browser (e.g., FireFox, Internet Explorer) and operating system (e.g., Windows, Unix) used to access our site;
• the date and time the user accessed our site;
• the pages the user visited; and,
• if the user linked to the blog from another Web site, the address of that Web site is also recorded.

This Information is only collected for statistical purposes is used to ascertain the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We never use or allow Information to be used to identify individuals nor do we allow Information to be used for commercial or surveillance purposes. Cookies are utilized so that users can log in and take advantage of the interactive tools offered here.