This page is about the using the Basic Collection, Core Collection and Essential Titles List to help identify suitable or in-scope publications for your library's collection. It also covers how to identify and use commercial databases that are provided to the FDLP for free.

There are a couple of tools that libraries use to work with and develop their item selection profile. Learn about amending an item selection profile by adding and dropping item numbers. Tools covered include: the List of Classes, Amendment of Item Selections form, and the Item Lister.

Collection Maintenance involves the ongoing tasks necessary to manage an existing collection. Topics covered include how to use the Superseded List, officially substituting electronic resources for tangible resources, WebTech Notes, ANTs, and the Needs and Offers process.

This page relates to information about the depository shipments you receive in the mail. Have you received something you should not have in your depository shipments? An article discusses how to forward or return misdirected depository shipments. Use the Shipping Lists this Week page to help identify if you are missing a shipment.

The Shipping Lists section covers the various ways one can use shipping lists in their day-to-day operations. Lists can be downloaded electronically in .dbf files through the Federal Bulletin Board Files (FBB), and in .pdf files through the Shipping Lister. Don't forget to investigate the Enhanced Shipping List Service if you think you might benefit from FDLP-community created tools to make call number labels and track incoming depository materials.

Didn't get what you were supposed to in your depository shipment? The Claims page covers how to claim missing shipments and publications using the Web Claim Form, Claims Copies Exhausted, and Expired Shipping Lists Web pages.