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Hi Carl Malamud -- great question!  I'm not sure what the plans are, but I have reached out to the Office of the Federal Register for a response.

Thanks Alan Walker for pointing us to the resources that are currently available!

Hi Carl,

The Office of the Federal Register is currently working with the Government Publishing Office (GPO) to digitize the 1936 to 1994 issues of the Federal Register.  Here is an update of our project.

GPO is currently preparing the Federal Register material for digitization. At this time, 9,073 items contained within 250 boxes have been prepared for digitization.  All pre-digitization preparation work for the 1994-1960 Federal Register material is completed and ready for digitization. Once the pre-digitization preparation work is completed, GPO will provide the Office of the Federal Register with the full inventory, with condition information.  We hope to have these issues online by the end of this calendar year.

Check out our blog on www.federalregister.gov for updates.  https://www.federalregister.gov/blog/2015/10/digitizing-the-federal-register

We haven’t taken the steps to digitize the CFR volumes that aren’t currently online.

If you are looking for agency hierarchies or information about the responsibilities of a federal office, you might also try the U.S. Government Manual. These have been digitized and are available in a couple of areas.

One is here: U.S. Government Manual. The ones on the Government Printing Office's Federal Digital System (FDsys) contains copies from 1994 to the present.

They are also on Google Books, or HathiTrust Digital Library. (A trick with HathiTrust - search "United States Government Manual and then limit it by the panels on the side. This brings up the most, and most relevant results.)

Happy hunting!

The Federal Depository Library Program posted an article with an update on the Federal Register digitization project.  http://www.fdlp.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2505:digitizing-the-historic-federal-register&catid=341…  

Here's the link to OFR's blog, OFR Blog | Update on Digitizing the Federal Register

https://www.federalregister.gov/blog/2016/03/update-on-digitizing-the-federal-register

HeinOnline, is a subscription database that contains searchable and downloadable back issues of both the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations. If you visit a NARA facility, you can access it through the Archives Library Information Center (ALIC) https://www.archives.gov/research/alic website. Other libraries may also have a subscription to this database that you can use.