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Starting small but dreaming big: A beginner’s journey to web archiving

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by Yoo Young Lee, Head, Information Technology, University of Ottawa Library. My journey to web archiving started suddenly, with an invitation to preserve the web content of the National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO) in 2017, when I had just joined the University of Ottawa Library as a Web and Digital Initiatives librarian.

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SAA Session Overviews- Post #1! Session 702 (“Documenting Current Events and Controversial Topics”)

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Jennifer Weintraub began the session by introducing the panelists and highlighting some of its major themes and points: “Controversial material” : Weintraub defined “controversial material” broadly–”it depends”– and noted that the Schlesinger Library, along with many other institutions, already collect this kind of content.

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Understanding web archive access and use with Google Analytics: Lessons and questions from the Federal Depository Library Program

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Stump and Bower introduce how Archive-It partners at the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) Web Archive have implemented and use Google Analytics to understand the use of their existing collections and plan for the future. All the content captured must be within scope of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).

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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.