Links to Resources of Potential Interest

ALA GODORT State & Local Documents Task Force

Best Practices Exchange - acquiring, preserving, and providing access to government information in the digital age

Council of State Archivists Resource Center

Digital Library Technologies (FGI site)

GPO's Digitization and Preservation Initiatives

GSLIS Electronic Archives Project (Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

IMLS: Institute of Museum and Library Services

IMLS report on state library agencies

"The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) issued its first library statistics report on state library agencies, on state library agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia for state fiscal year (FY) 2006. The State Library Agency Report for FY 2006 released November 2007 includes a wide array of information on topics such as libraries’ Internet access, services, collections, staff, and revenue, and is used by state and federal policymakers, researchers, and others."

State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States

State Government Information Index

Web-at-Risk Wiki

Articles and Studies

Gant, Diana Burley, Jon P. Gant, and Craig L. Johnson. State Web Portals: Delivering and Financing E-Service. Arlington: PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government, January 2002.

http://www.myscgov.com/SCSGPortal/johnsonreport.pdf

Beagrie, Neil. National Digital Preservation Initiatives: An Overview of Developments in Australia, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and of Related International Activity. Copublished by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Library of Congress, April 2003.

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub116/contents.html

Glenn, Valerie D. Preserving Government and Political Informaation: The Web-at-Risk Project. First Monday. 12, no. 7, July 2007.

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_7/glenn/

Idaho State Library. Final Report of the Idaho State Library Task Force: A Study and Recommendations on Idaho State Public Documents. June 2006.

http://libraries.idaho.gov/files/default/FinalReport-IdahoStatePublicDocs-06-2006.pdf

Lee, Kyong-Ho, Oliver Slattery, Richang Lu, Xiao Tang, and Victor McCrary. "The State of the Art and Practice in Digital Preservation." Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards. 107, no. 1, Jan-Feb., 2002: 93-106.

http://nvl-p.nist.gov/pub/nistpubs/jres/107/1/j71lee.pdf

Open Government Guide. http://www.rcfp.org/ogg/

"A complete compendium of information on every state's open records and open meetings laws. Each state's section is arranged according to a standard outline, making it easy to compare laws in various states."

State-by-State Report on Permanent Public Access to Electronic Government Information. Government Relations Committee and Washington Affairs Office, American Association of Law Libraries, June 2003.

http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/aallwash/PPAreport.htm