James and I were interviewed by Adam Kriesberg on the New Books Network Library Science podcast in a discussion of our book, Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future. Adam is an Associate Professor at the Simmons University School of Library and Information Science where his research and teaching interests lie in the intersecting domains of Archives, Digital Curation, Data Management, Digital Preservation, and Public Sector Information. He is the Co-Director of the Dual Degree Program in Archives + History.
“In this book, Jacobs and Jacobs introduce the different US federal institutions tasked with managing and preserving government information in a range of media formats from paper to digital. They examine how preservation practices of the past affect the preservation of digitally published government information today, analyze publishing and preservation data to characterize the current gaps in preservation, and look to the future by charting a path to a distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure for government information while explaining key concepts in digital preservation along the way.”
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