What Was Lost, Now is Found: Using Google Books and Internet Archive to Rebuild What Hurricane Rita Destroyed
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This presentation focuses on the discovery, collection, and dissemination of digital government documents using Google Books and Internet Archive to replenish a depository affected by a natural disaster. The focus will be on how to find rare, valuable, and historical state documents in a digital format using Google Books and Internet Archive. Negative and positive aspects of both these tools will be examined. Presented by Rebecca Blakeley at the SLDTF GODORT meeting at ALA 2008.
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What Was Lost, Now is Found: Using Google Books and Internet Archive to Rebuild What Hurricane Rita Destroyed
- 1. What Was Lost, Now Is Found: Using Google Books and Internet Archive to Rebuild What Hurricane Rita Destroyed Rebecca Blakeley McNeese State University
- 19. The solution…
- 20. Nothing beats reading the print…
- 21. Digital gov docs have their benefits too…
- 23. Google Books “Gov Doc Library”
- 24. RSS Feed Alert
- 26. Quality is less than perfect…
- 27. Searching for State Docs
- 30. LA State Doc in Google Books
- 34. Don’t have the record in your OPAC? Just retrieve it from OCLC and modify accordingly.
- 38. Advanced Search
- 39. Search for Louisiana = 423 Results, 121 considered state documents! Dang right!
- 42. Ctrl + F to browse for a state or topic
- 50. Let’s come up with solutions… And bring ALL types of government documents to the people!
Editor's Notes
- Introduce myself, working as a Gov Doc Librarian for a year and ½ at McNeese State University, originally from Rhode Island. Moved to Lake Charles after Hurricane Rita but helped with the long arduous recovery process. To put this presentation in context, I will talk a bit about the devastation and loss that occurred, which caused me to think of using digital repositories to replenish a collection of documents that were lost, some very historical and seemingly impossible to find, but somehow were found, most in a different medium…digitally. I will focus on state and local documents, but keep in mind that a majority of the destruction affected federal documents. I will give you practical tips and guidance on how to find, collect, and disseminate your own digital documents (esp. state and local) to add to your collection as well, focusing on these two tools, which have their own pros and cons that we will examine. This presentation is based on a blog entry I wrote for FGI in March (see your handout).