Preserving Government Web Sites

August 14, 2008

Library Partnership Preserves End-of-Term Government Web Sites

The Library of Congress, the California Digital Library, the University of North Texas Libraries, the Internet Archive and the U.S. Government Printing Office today announced a collaborative project to preserve public United States Government web sites at the end of the current presidential administration ending January 19, 2009. This harvest is intended to document federal agencies' online archive during the transition of government and to enhance the existing collections of the five partner institutions. Read the rest. . .

Contributed by Stephanie Bayless, Manuscripts Department.