Publishing Trends within State Government: The Situation in North Carolina

Autor/in	Martin, Kristin E.
Titel	Publishing Trends within State Government: The Situation in North Carolina
Quelle	In: Journal of Government Information, 30 (2004) 5-6, S.620-636 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1352-0237
DOI	10.1016/j.jgi.2004.10.006
Schlagwörter	Government Libraries; State Government; State Agencies; Government Publications; Information Management; Access to Information; Preservation; North Carolina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Staatliche Bibliothek; Bund-Länder-Beziehung; Öffentliche Einrichtung; Procurement of information; Informationsbeschaffung
Abstract	The State Library of North Carolina is responsible for ensuring public access to North Carolina state government publications and maintaining a permanent state documents depository collections. Over the last 7 years, state agencies have increasingly disseminated information in digital formats via the Internet, posing challenges for the State Library to collect, manage, and preserve state publications for public access. In order to address these challenges, the State Library initiated a multiyear research project to develop a plan for managing digital state publications for permanent public access. The first year of the project was devoted to gaining knowledge of current publishing practices by surveying state agency staff and reviewing a selection of state agency publications. The article discusses the results of this research, using North Carolina as an example to illustrate many of the challenges of providing permanent public access to digital information, including rapidly changing Web sites, technological obsolescence, lack of standards for preservation and access, complex political considerations, and difficulty obtaining sufficient funding. The article concludes with recommendations for actions that state libraries and other memory institutions should take to adequately preserve and provide access to digital government information. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10