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DPL-Censorship

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Denton Public Library program:

Censorship of Government Information

10.03.2007

Starr Hoffman, Librarian for Digital Collections, UNT Libraries

print versions:

Efforts by UNT and other Depositories to Maintain Access to Electronic Government Information

I. The CyberCemetery

primary website: http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/
browse by thumbnail images: http://tinyurl.com/2cfg5f

Disappearing Information

Government agencies create websites, but once their Congressional funding runs out or they complete their final reports, their websites usually disappear. Now, we identify these websites and archive copies of them in the CyberCemetery.

The CyberCemetery was created in 1997 to prevent the disappearance of online government information. It is maintained by a partnership between the University of North Texas Libraries, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), as part of the Federal Depository Library Program. This collection provides permanent public access to the websites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions.

Archived Websites

first website archived in 1997
- Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
currently 45 available online
a number of others have been archived and should be available soon:
- Iraq Study Group Report
- Antitrust Modernization Commission
- Technology Administration (under Dept. of Commerce)

Daily/Monthly Access

175,000+ visits/month
1,000,000+ hits/month
460.8GB downloaded/month
5,741 visits/day
peak of 8,501 visits on 11.28.06

Browse Options

by agency name (alphabetical)
by date of expiration
by branch of government
by thumbnail image of homepage

II. Congressional Research Service Report Archives

http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/

What is a CRS Report?

published by the Congressional Research Service
- public policy arm of the Library of Congress
created for members of Congress
- provides timely, objective research on legislative issues
center around topics relevant to current legislation

Current Public Access

none through CRS
must request reports from their member of Congress
can purchase from several third-party vendors
use one of the freely-provided CRS archives online (see below)

Efforts toward Public Access

started effort to put reports online in 1991
legislation requesting publicly accessible website for CRS reports: introduced into Congress eight times
- 2007 (H.R. 2545); introduced May 24th

CRS Reports Archive at UNT

http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/
over 10,000 reports available
wide variety of subjects
features:
- browse by topic
- full-text searching ability

Additional Sources for CRS Reports:

OpenCRS
- http://opencrs.com/
CRS Reports at Thurgood Marshall Law Library
- http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/crsreports/index.asp
CRS Reports from the Federation of American Scientists
- http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRS/index.cfm?&CFID=10842369&CFTOKEN=53883781
- Intelligence, Military and National Security
CRS Reports from the National Library for the Environment
- http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/
- Environmental Law & Policy
CRS Reports from the U.S. State Department
- http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/c18185.htm
- Foreign Policy and Relations
IP Mall at Franklin Pierce Law School
- http://www.ipmall.info/hosted_resources/crs_reports.asp
- Intellectual Property, Cyberlaw, and Electronic Commerce

III. Web-at-Risk

http://web3.unt.edu/webatrisk/

One of eight digital preservation projects funded by the Library of Congress in 2004, known as the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP).

Partnership between:

University of California's California Digital Library
New York University
The University of North Texas

Goal:

develop a Web Archiving Service (software that builds collections of web-published materials)
collect content from:
- federal and state government agencies
- political policy documents
- campaign literature
- other information surrounding political movements (such as blogs)

IV. LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)

LOCKSS was launched as a pilot program with the Government Printing Office (GPO) to test archiving government-published e-journals. A LOCKSS computer runs open-source software that archives content as it crawls the internet. In the pilot program, the GPO tested a LOCKSS cache and opened the content to select depository libraries. GPO is now determining whether or not to use LOCKSS to distribute government e-journals, but some librarians are already using it to archive select government information.