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(London.CityRegiions.com, November 15, 2012 ) New Castle, England -- Washington’s venerable Government Printing Office, created before the start of the Civil War, no longer employs hordes of plate makers, compositors and round-the-clock press operators at its huge red-brick facilities a few blocks away from the Capitol.
As electronic documents proliferate, 97% of federal documents are created electronically, the federal government’s conventional printing has fallen by half. Print runs for GPO’s long-time mainstay publications, the Congressional Record and the Federal Register, have shriveled from 30,000 two decades ago to 2,500 nowadays.
Some in Congress have offered bills to legislate an end to government printing of bills before Congress. Last year’s federal budget fight saw an unsuccessful effort to cut GPO’s budget by 20%.
GPO’s top executive, public printer Davita Vance-Cooks, wants to reinvent the agency, an arm of Congress. She has just released a five-year plan to put the GPO on a path to becoming a more digitally-focused agency.
The first woman to lead GPO, Vance-Cooks assumed the agency’s top spot in January 2011, and calls it “a poster child for adaptation.” Soon after taking charge, she and GPO unions negotiated buyouts for 330 laborers. Pressman who formerly operated huge conventional presses are getting retrained to run digital presses producing smaller runs. As the old press operators retire, they will be succeeded by IT specialists and Web developers with new-fangled skills like designing iPhone apps and doing partnership deals on e-book publishing. Vance-Cooks in fact says the agency could more accurately be called the “Government Publishing Office.”
Her newly-issued strategy calls for the GPO to retain printing duties for some major items, like the Code of Federal Regulations and federal budget documents, but also becoming the library for the government’s most important digital documents and producing large volumes of high-security documents and identifications. The plan is reflected in a proposed new slogan for the agency: “Official. Digital. Secure.”
GPO first got into printing secure documents 80 years ago, when it started printing passports, stitching them together in its hand bindery. In the post-9/11 security-conscious environment, GPO has for several years been the printer of more secure government-issued identity documents, such as the passports with biometric identifiers and smart cards for crossing American borders. It printed $200 million worth of secure cards in the past fiscal year alone, and sees this as a growth business.
As a step towards setting the agency’s role as a depository of key documents, GPO officials and federal librarians have developed a list of around 160 titles, among them the Economic Report of the President and the Internal Revenue Bulletin, which the GPO will continue to print indefinitely. In a nod to tradition, it will also keep publishing a twice-annual compilation of official presidential documents, with gold-stamped hand-bound leather covers and marbleized endpapers.
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