On September 30, 2005,

the NAAL Advisory Council approved the FY2006 Plan, a part of which created a state publications and records task force to address two tasks:

1. Improve Access to State Publications: NAAL will develop a plan to expand access to state publications and assure online publications are available electronically by coordinating efforts to create a distributed archival collection for state publications.

2. Digital Preservation: NAAL will support the Library of Congress initiative encouraging each state to "work toward the effective preservation of information in digital formats" especially the long-term preservation of state publications and records.

NAAL recognizes that implementation of these tasks can be done only in cooperation with the Alabama Department of Archives and History, the state agency legally responsible for state records and publications. However, there may ways for the NAAL members to help facilitate a statewide effort to assure that this information is not lost to future generations. The charge to the Task Force is to recommend action by NAAL as a consortium and/or its members as individual institutions that will advance the identification and preservation of state records and publications distributed in digital formats.

On November 7, 2007,

the NAAL Advisory Council approved a grant for the Auburn University at Montgomery Library to test the OCLC Digital Archive Toolbox during FY2007-2008.  If this test demonstrates the Toolbox can advance the state publications project, the Task Force should be able to complete its work to recommend action to improve how Alabama identifies, catalogs, archives, and makes state information publicly available.