Background papers
Governments and the Digital Record: the Historian's Perspective. Report on a Panel Discussion on Government Information and Societal Memory Convened by the American Historical Association, January 2014. Center for Research Libraries, March 27, 2014.
James A. Jacobs, Born-Digital U.S. Federal Government Information: Preservation and Access, March 2014. Prepared for Leviathan, the Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Collections Forum.
Additional reading
David J. Craig, "The Ghost Files," Columbia Magazine, Winter 2013-14. Profiles Leviathan speaker Matthew Connelly’s research on U.S. government declassification policies
Wendy Ginsberg, Retaining and Preserving Federal Records in a Digital Environment: Background and Issues for Congress, CRS Report R43165. (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Research Service, July 26, 2012), accessed December 9, 2013, https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43165.pdf
R. Eric Petersen, Jennifer E. Manning and Christina M. Bailey, Federal Depository Library Program: Issues for Congress, CRS Report R42457 (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Research Service, March 29, 2012), accessed December 9, 2013, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42457.pdf.
“The Evolving Supply Chain for Government-Produced Information” FOCUS on Global Resources Fall 2013 (volume 33, number 4). Summary of a recent CRL webinar and Charleston session; also suggestions for a new cooperative strategy.
CRL topic guides
- Government Records and Archives--U.S.
- Government Publications and Information--U.S.
- Government Publications and Information--non-U.S.
