1.
SALAD my experience collecting
and providing access to
electronic Arizona
government documents
Lindsay O’Neill
Library Information Specialist Lead 2013-2014
Government Documents Service
Arizona State University Libraries
Currently Instructional Design Librarian
California State University, Fullerton

2.
What is SALAD?
Includes:
• Transportation
planning
• Environmental
impact studies
• Annual reports
• Statistics
• And more!
Arizona Game & Fish Doing Things to a Bald Eagle

3.
A Short History of SALAD
Print Collection
• Pre-1970s: Collecting begins
• Today: 18,000+ titles in the collection
– Holdings span Arizona Territory to present day
– Continuing efforts to collect print, but
electronic is preferred

4.
A Short History of SALAD
Digital Collection
• 2000-ish: Print starts to decline
• 2006: SALAD digital repository proposed
• 2012: ASU Digital Repository goes live
• Today:
– 6,700+ electronic docs collected
– 1400+ titles available online
Behold the Internet!

5.
How did I get here?

6.
Making the SALAD Bigger
Browse • Systematic browsing
Download • Download one-by-one
Describe • Collect metadata
Catalog • Catalog and upload

7.
Browse
• Systematic exploration
of government websites
• Wayback Machine to
discover previous
versions/issues
archive.org

8.
Download
• Save PDFs to shared
drive
• Merge multiple PDFs
as necessary – time
consuming!

9.
Describe
• Plain text file with
URL and any notes
• Organize in folders by
government entity
and department

10.
Catalog
• Cataloger accesses
files on shared drive
• Creates bib record
and uploads to ASU
Digital Repository

11.
Sometimes collecting for SALAD felt like this.

12.
And sometimes it felt like this.

13.
Results
• In 1.5 years, I collected
1,890 new documents
• I grew the SALAD collection
by 39%
• I developed workflows in
collaboration with the cataloger
• I gained an appreciation for the
wonders of GovDocs
Teamwork!

14.
Questions?
You can also email me: jloneill@fullerton.edu

15.
SALAD
• libguides.asu.edu/salad
• repository.asu.edu/
collections/16