What Was Lost, Now is Found: Using Digital Repositories to Rebuild What Hurricane Rita Destroyed

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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, because that is what caused me to think of using digital repositories to replenish the documents that were lost, some that were historical and seemingly impossible to find, but somehow were found, just in a different medium…digital. I will give you practical tips and guidance on how to find, collect, and disseminate your own digital documents to add to your collection. In your handout is a link to this presentation & the handouts, a bibliography for more info, as well as all the links you will need and tips I give to help you.

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What Was Lost, Now Is Found: Using Digital Repositories to Rebuild What Hurricane Rita Destroyed Rebecca Blakeley McNeese State University
Hurricane Rita
- Damaged Library Roof - 4 th Floor
The solution…
Nothing beats reading the print…
Digital gov docs have their benefits too…
Google Books “Gov Doc Library”
RSS Feed Alert
Quality is less than perfect…
Searching for Federal Docs
Searching for State Docs
Internet Archive: www.archive.org
Advanced Search
American Libraries Collection
Government Documents Collection
Ctrl + F to browse for a state or topic
Internet Archive “Bookmarks”
Modifying the Record
The Completed Record!
Don’t have the record in your OPAC? Just retrieve it from OCLC and modify accordingly.
Why go through all this effort? Documents to the People = Happy Patrons
Well, this is all just great but what about standards ? Are these online digital repositories following digitization standards? Um, yeah… about those standards….
digitizationguidelines.gov
Let’s come up with solutions… And bring ALL types of government documents to the people!