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COVID-19 collections and resouces: An update for web archivists

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Case studies. Creating and following a web collecting policy in a public library : An introduction to collecting policies and practices that came out of similarly sudden and tragic events, including the East Baton Rouge Library’s advice for outreach and engagement. Both continue to grow and change rapidly.

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The Human Rights web archive collection at Columbia University Libraries?

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by Alex Thurman, Head of Web Collecting, Columbia University Libraries Columbia University Libraries’ web collecting program began in 2008, with the goal of ensuring that selected freely available web resources remain accessible for current and future researchers. The collection to date represents 19.2 TB added each year.

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The Digital Campaigns Project: Preserving State Politics in a Nationalized Political Environment

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At the national level, campaign websites have been regularly archived by both the Library of Congress but also existing crawling criteria used by the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, facilitating access to historical candidate websites for both citizens and researchers.