Alabama State Publications
Posted by Valerie on February 22, 2008
The Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) is working on a variety of projects designed to make Alabama state publications more accessible to the citizens of this state. I am most excited about their electronic collection of Alabama State Publications. This collection contains “the State of Alabama Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and various publications from the Office of the Governor. Also included are annual reports, monographs, and periodicals from various state agencies.” All of these publications are born-digital in nature (either received in an email from the agency, or harvested from an agency web site).
Another approach that ADAH is taking to preserve web-published state documents is Archive-It, a service of the Internet Archive. This tool attempts to capture an entire agency web site, not just their publications. Visit the Archive-It collections page to see all of the different Alabama sites that are available.
(For documents librarians this is quite exciting – the state of Alabama hasn’t had much of a state publications program in the print environment, so it’s nice to see folks trying to preserve what’s published digitally!)
