Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve written about my experiences at the 2007 Best Practices Exchange in Chandler, Arizona. You can find all of my other postings at
http://freegovinfo.info/taxonomy/term/339.
I wanted to close my coverage with a note of praise for my fellow state documents librarians and archivists. While we could have simply have linked to agency resources and allowed them to control libraries’ level of access, most people working in state libraries and archives recognize their responsibility to collect, describe, preserve and provide meaningful enduring access to their state’s publications. Whether we try to disburse the publications as Alaska does using LOCKSS, or make their publications available for easy downloading like other states, we are libraries taking custody of electronic government publications. We make mistakes, but we try and in many cases are starting to build examples for others to follow.
So, if you’re involved in federal government information, review our presentations at the Exchange and see if you might be able to start to take custody of the high-profile federal publications that might not stick around if left to the government’s devices and short-sighted funding priorities.
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