Los Alamos Technical Reports and Publications
"In 2002, the Los Alamos National Laboratory terminated public access to thousands of unclassified reports on nuclear science and technology as well as other historical and policy-related publications that had formerly been available on the Lab's web site as part of its Library Without Walls initiative." Continue reading
Kentucky State Library locally stores and serves state e-docs
As I write this on December 10, 2005, Federal Depository Libraries across the country have 21 days to complete the federally required biennial library survey. For the first time ever, this survey contains a question on digital deposit. Some librarians are worried about the committment needed to maintain local digital collections. So that's why I've been writing up examples of libraries that have taken up the digital challenge. Today's example is the Kentucky State Library and Archives Agency. The Kentucky State Library stores roughly 6000 files representing 4500-5000 documents. The files take up 5.34GB and have been mostly harvested in the past two years. Kentucky currently has 100GB of free storage space with an option on another terabyte (1000GB). At the average Kentucky e-doc file size of 1MB, Kentucky could store another 102,400 files or more than 85,000 documents. Continue reading
Happy 20th birthday National Security Archive!
National Security Archive 20th Anniversary: Celebrating 20 Years of Keeping Government Honest The National Security Archive celebrates its 20th anniversary today with a special event at George Washington University, headlined by Bill Moyers, with Seymour M. Hersh, Tina Rosenberg, Scott Armstrong, Geneva Overholser, Walter B. Slocombe, Morton H. Halperin and Sherry Jones. You can listen to Bill Moyers' keynote address as well as the panels with the other speakers. Moyers once again does an amazing job! If you haven't heard him talk (and even if you have!!), you're in for a real treat. Continue reading
GAO has RSS feed
The Government Accountability Office now has an RSS feed. See their web site feeds page for links and information. Continue reading
Alaska State Library stores and serves state e-docs
As Federal Depository Librarians mull over the idea of digital deposit and discuss that with their administrations, consider the Alaska State Library's recent experience in storing and serving Alaska State Documents: Starting with documents cataloged in July 2005 (FY 2006), the Alaska State Library stores local copies of cataloged electronic state publications on our web server. As of 12/7/2005, we had 279 titles in 463 files taking up 1.16GB worth of storage space. We still have 48GB available on our current web server, so at the average AK e-document size of 3.7MB, we could handle another 13,000 plus documents before we'd need to buy a new hard drive. Because we used space on an existing server, we had no upfront costs. Documents stored on the server are accessible through our catalog and through our monthly shipping lists. A robots.txt file keeps our stored documents from being directly accessed by the major search engines. This is done to ensure that user understands they are not looking at an agency copy. Search engines do access the monthly shipping lists, so people will be able to find an agency document even if it is dropped of the agency's server. But the user will be shown that they are looking at a library-archived copy. Continue reading