LC, Partners Will Preserve Bush Administration Web Sites

In an effort to preserve Executive materials on the Web, the Library of Congress along with the California Digital Library, the University of North Texas Libraries, the Internet Archive and the U.S. Government Printing Office announced a collaborative project to preserve public United States Government websites at the end of the current presidential administration ending January 19, 2009.  According to the Library of Congress “the Internet Archive will undertake a comprehensive crawl of the .gov domain, the University of North Texas and the California Digital Library will focus on in-depth crawls of specific government agencies and the Government Printing Office will lend expertise to the curation process along with libraries in its Federal Depository Library Program.”    [RJ]