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* The Depository Library Council to the Public Printer (DLC) was created in 1972 and serves as an advisory committee to the Public Printer and the Superintendent of Documents. The DLC addresses such issues as improving public access, optimizing resources, indexing and classification, format, storage and administration. The Council consists of fifteen members who are appointed by the Public Printer, and they serve three year terms, with five members retiring and five new members stepping in each year. The Council meets at least twice per year.
=== Types of depository libraries ===
There are two types of depository libraries:
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# Selective depository library. There may only be two selective depositories per Congressional district; there may be more only in the event that a Congressional district has been reconfigured after a decennial [[United States census|census]]. Selective depositories choose to receive certain classes of documents from the government, which are chosen from the List of Classes. Selective libraries choose materials which will best serve their clientele.
=== Attaining FDLP status ===
There are two ways in which a library may qualify for FDLP status:
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## Accredited law schools ({{USC|44|1916}})
=== Responsibilities and maintaining depository status ===
Libraries with depository status are required to provide the documents received at no cost to their patrons. Though they receive the publications free of charge, depository libraries are responsible for the costs of processing the items and making them available. All depository libraries must make their collections of these documents available to the general public, and the services provided for government documents must be on par with the services offered to the primary users of a library. Circulation policies for government documents, however, are established by each library itself. Libraries may house the materials however they like; for example, they may separate the government documents from the rest of their collection or they may integrate them. A library cannot [[Content-control software|filter]] [[Internet]] search results at public access stations as access to health or biological science articles may not be infringed upon.
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Unlike adding items, selections may be removed at any time; the library stops receiving the documents within 72 hours.
=== Retention of documents ===
Selective depository libraries must keep government documents in their collections for five years minimum, after which time the items may be removed from the collection with the approval of a regional library. Items marked for disposal must be offered first to the regional, then to other depositories ({{USC|44|1912}}). All depository libraries, including regional libraries, may dispose of items that have been superseded or issued later in bound form ({{USC|44|1911}}). If an item has been deselected, the library must still retain the publications it possesses from that item number for five years before they may be discarded. Libraries may not financially benefit from the disposal of depository publications.
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