At our meeting last Fall I mentioned a pilot project with the Internet Archive. During the project we identified agency web sites and the Internet Archive archived the pages for us. We have continued working with them (on a trial through July) and I have amended the list of items we are collecting. For information about Archive It you can go to www.archiveit.org and read about their activities. To see what they are gathering for ADAH go to http://www.archive-it.org/most_recent.php and click on the "Browse Alabama Web Sites: collection. Please note that all of this takes place at the macro level and the collection will only have 2006 pages in it so far.

I am still advocating that an interim step in getting where we want to be is to identify the "top 100 or 200" publications that are requested the most by library users. If we add the URLS for these items (if they exist on-line) to the list gathered, we know we will get them and they will be available on-line for everyone. The NAAL LOCKSS Project will be another way to handle a similar process for archiving these documents. But again, it will only work if the items are already in an electronic environment.

Neither the Archive It nor the LOCKSS gather/store/make available method addresses the paper versions of pubs.