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                             December 15, 2001
                             GP 3.16/3-2:22/ 17
                             (Vol. 22, no. 17)

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               Enhanced New Electronic Titles (NET) Developed

New Electronic Titles (NET) users will find an improved, more comprehensive
product effective January 1, 2002. The enhancements are made possible by
changing from a stand-alone, independently maintained application to one
based on the Catalog of Government Publications (CGP). These enhancements
to NET functionality will also enable the Library Programs Service (LPS) to
make the most efficient use of limited personnel resources.

Improvements include:

   * The "new" NET will be comprehensive rather than selective. It will
     list ALL online electronic publications within a specific time period,
     including those electronic-only titles added to the FDLP Electronic
     Collection, and those which have tangible counterparts that have been
     distributed to depositories.

   * More information will be provided for each electronic publication. The
     user may review both the short and full cataloging records, which may
     contain multiple hyperlinks to various formats of the title (e.g.,
     PDF, HTML, TXT). The current NET listing provides only a single
     hyperlink.

   * Records will be more timely, since cataloging workflow makes records
     for electronic publications available in CGP before they appear on the
     NET listing.

   * The listings will cumulate, and records will be available as soon as
     they become available in the CGP. Users will no longer have to wait
     for the entire listing to be completed before they are able to access
     any of the items on the list.

GPO's Production Department is working closely with LPS to provide further
enhancements to the NET service, including independent search capability of
the Cataloging Date field and chronological listing of the search results.

NET remains available at the same URL:
<www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/net>.