iSchool Capstone

Popular Government through Popular Information: Providing, Preserving, and Promoting Digital Access to Federal Documents via Trustworthy Repositories

Project tags:

archives & special collections

Project poster

Providing digital access to government documents requires a collaborative effort from both Federal Depository Libraries and digital repositories. This project prepares for the digitization of government publications held within the University of Washington Libraries while promoting access to documents already held within certified digital repositories. First, I created an index of World War II and post-war items held by the UW Libraries that have not yet been digitized and subsequently compiled a workflow process to aid in future digitization projects. Additionally, I developed research guides to facilitate access to previously-digitized collections on repository sites such as HathiTrust and govinfo.

Project participants:

Lauren Cooley DeTora

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