These are notes from the session called “Digital Government Resources from the State Library” from the NCLA conference. These notes are rough and I will add the PowerPoint as soon as possible.
Jennifer Davison, Head of the Government Documents branch, highlighted a variety of digital projects from the NC State Publications Collection to NC Mosaic to the Historical NC Census Data.
- state library and state archives work together, but are different; trying to work more together; jennifer works with govt & heritage library; overlap with state archives in some things they collect (public records)
- Digital information management program: created to deal with born digital, especially preservation
- NC Mosaic: launched in May; finding government info collections of content at other institutions; mostly county, state, and academic collections
- NC historical census data: full text searchable and hand colored maps
- state publications collection: NC state agency produced publications; started adding content year ago or so; covers a wide range of material; want to start adding mp3 files; this collection will increase because of the Ensuring Democracy project & NC ECHO digitization project; doing large serial runs; about 200 titles; some non-state docs but most state pubs; UNC is scanning
- NC state government web site archives: state library has been doing this for 4 years; can look at NC state agencies back to 1996; working to harvest current web sites; will expand state agency social media sites too!!; including user comments, updates, etc.
- future: create educational website on preservations geared for government agencies; more partnerships with academic and within state government; develop a digital preservation plan
- NC digital repository: primary focus is state agency info; with mosaic adding county info
- NC mosaic has tremendous potential for helping with tough questions about collections
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