PEGI Project Poster
Learn about and contribute to the PEGI Project. It brings together librarians, technologists, and other information professionals from libraries and federal information agencies. The project’s focus is at-risk government digital information of long-term historical significance which is not being adequately harvested from the web or by other automated means.
The project is conducting a multimodal environmental scan of at-risk federal digital content—and soliciting input from all stakeholders. The project will analyze and develop recommendations for a collaborative national agenda to continue improving preservation and access to electronic government information.
Scott Matheson, Yale Law Library
PEGI Project Session
Librarians have long collaborated to provide government-produced information to their patrons—on a large scale via the Federal Depository Library Program and the National Archives—and on smaller scales through state government information programs. The models for these collection-building and preservation activities were developed in the print era and have struggled to adapt to the digital era. This session will provide an update on a national effort to define government information for collection and preservation in the electronic age. Participants will spend time in facilitated discussion about their government information needs, which will inform the report produced by the PEGI project in fall 2018.
Takeaways:
1) Participants will be able to identify several "born digital" government information products (from all levels of government) that are important to their patrons and explain why they are at risk of loss.
2) Participants will participate in facilitated group discussions to generate requirements and goals for preserving electronic government information.
3) Participants will be able to explain elements of the digital preservation lifecycle and encourage others to become aware of its importance to our collections and patrons.
Who Should Attend: Law librarians who work with government information, develop collections, or teach patrons how to find what they need will benefit from participating in defining what information to preserve for the future; those who have participated in or are following proposed changes to Title 44 U.S.C.