Open AccessPreservation of Federal Government Publications in Multiple Formats Proposal
Author(s) -
GODORT Preservation Working Group
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
dttp/documents to the people
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0270-5095
pISSN - 0091-2085
DOI - 10.5860/dttp.v44i3.6122
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , conversation , order (exchange) , value (mathematics) , public relations , digital government , public administration , political science , table (database) , library science , business , computer science , sociology , finance , law , philosophy , linguistics , communication , machine learning , digital transformation , data mining
The GODORT Preservation Working Group urges the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) to promote a national conversation about the value of preserving historic Government publications in multiple formats in order to serve a diverse public and to publicize the need for Government publications librarians to help the public access those publications. GODORT should urge ALA to ask the US Congress to appropriate funds for preservation of Federal Depository Library Program government publications. This money should be used for direct support of depository libraries who want to preserve their paper and digital government publications.