Registration for the 2011 Statewide Government Documents Annual Conference is now open. All are invited.
The following presentation by our special guest speaker, Christopher C. Brown from Denver University, may be of particular interest:
Harvesting HathiTrust Documents: A New Model for Online Access
When the University of Denver began using an OAI-PMH harvester to bring HathiTrust materials into their Encore library catalog, they discovered an extremely high percentage of government documents in the harvest. This presentation will discuss the challenges and successes the library encountered as we attempted harvesting as a non-Hathi member library. We have been able to add nearly 150,000 online documents (with additional records every week). Among the advantages is that there is no record management involved. On the negative side is the poor record quality. Use statistics from Google Analytics will be presented. The harvesting model can be viewed as a forward-looking model for low-cost, high-volume access to government document content.
Other presentations are described on the conference website.