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Government Records and Information: Real Risks and Potential Losses James A. Jacobs 3stages.org/crl Two Themes (1) This is Not about Technology Technology is a tool Two Themes (2) This is about Value of Libraries Value

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Government Records and Information: Real Risks and Potential Losses

James A. Jacobs

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3stages.org/crl

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Two Themes

(1) This is Not about Technology Technology is a tool

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Two Themes

(2) This is about Value of Libraries

Value “Assets” Value (Collections + Services)

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Gaps in what we know

  • no list of born-digital government information
  • no list of all government websites
  • no list of preserved born-digital gov-information
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What we know (1)

FDLP libraries successfully preserved millions of volumes of non-digital government information

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Information Life-cycle Responsible Institution Creation Individual agencies Production GPO Preservation FDLP Libraries

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What we know (2)

Most born-digital government information is not held, managed, organized, served, or preserved by libraries

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1983

INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919

  • Keeping America Informed

The U.S. Government Printing Office 150 Years Of Service To The Nation.

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1993

Public Law 103-40 The Government Printing Office Electronic Information Access Enhancement Act

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What we know (3)

The scope of born-digital government information being produced far outpaces what is being preserved

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The simple fact is: no one knows how much born-digital U.S. Federal government information has been created, or where it all is,

  • r how much of it is being preserved.
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Issues

  • Versioning
  • The need for persistent URLs
  • The need for temporal context
  • E-government issues
  • Relying on government for preservation

(and free access)

  • Selection
  • Collections need Services
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Who Should Preserve?

  • Government alone
  • Government with non-government

partners

  • Non-government without government

cooperation

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Methods of selection

  • Broad web harvesting
  • Focused selection
  • Digital Deposit
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Framework

  • Preservation and Access
  • Collections and Services
  • Focus on user-communities first
  • Unique collections for unique communities
  • Participation of every library
  • Cooperation and Collaboration
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Summary

  • We can:

– Preserve born-digital government information (the technology exists) – Every library can participate (the entry-cost is low) – We can add value to the information by building collections of use to our communities. – We can add value to our libraries by providing collections + services for our communities.