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Mary Haberle is a Web Archivist at Archive-It, which is the Internet Archive’s subscription web archiving service. She's part of a support team that provides training and direct support services to our partners, including the archivists on this panel who are all using Archive-It at their institutions. Dory Bower has been an Archives Specialist at the U.S. Government Publishing Office since 2010, where she has worked on a number of projects to increase access to electronic U.S. government resources. Dory began working with web archiving in 2011 and has played a key role in all aspects of the Federal Depository Library Program Web Archive. Megan Craynon has worked at the Maryland State Archives since 2011, and has spent the majority of that time as a team member on the web archiving project. She currently serves as the Deputy Director of Special Collections. Ben Goldman is the Kalin Librarian for Technological Innovations at Penn State University Libraries, where he has overseen web archiving efforts since 2012. Roger Christman is the Governors’ Records Archivist at the Library of Virginia. In his spare time, he also manages the Library’s web archiving program. Nicholas Worby is the Government Information and Statistics Librarian as well as the Web Archives Program Coordinator at the University of Toronto. Ian Milligan is an associate professor of digital and Canadian history at the University of Waterloo. He’s leading a Mellon-funded project to develop a cloud-based infrastructure for the analysis of web archives., As repositories of primary source materials, archives play a central role in supporting the democratic principles of transparency and accountability. Political discourse and many official records of government have shifted from analog to web-based delivery. Web archiving programs that collect content created by elected officials and governments are vital to a robust civil society, which is central to a healthy democracy. This panel brings together information professionals and a digital historian engaged with related content. Professionals actively acquiring websites of elected officials and online government publications will discuss why and how their institutions are building web archives in these areas and what gaps, if any, exist. Panelists will offer their perspectives on the current state of researcher access and how archives can better support researcher engagement with web archives. Questions of professional and institutional responsibility as citizens and as employees of democratic institutions will be explored.

Public access to government information forms the foundation of a healthy liberal democracy, but because this information can be precarious, it needs stewardship. Government Information in Canada provides analysis about the state of Canadian government information publishing. Practitioners from across the country draw on decades of experience and hands-on practice to offer a broad, well-founded survey of history, procedures, and emerging issues—particularly the challenges posed by the transition of government information from print to digital access. This is an indispensable book for librarians, archivists, researchers, journalists, and everyone who uses government information and wants to know more about its publication, circulation, and retention. This item can also be accessed through the University of Alberta Press website: https://www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/924-9781772124446-government-information-in-canada TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: The Evolution of Government Information Services and Stewardship in Canada - Amanda Wakaruk and Sam-chin Li I Historical Overviews 1. Government Publication Deposit Programs: The Canadian Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Landscapes - Graeme Campbell, Michelle Lake, and Catherine McGoveran 2. Official Publications and Select Digital Library Collections at Library and Archives Canada, 1923 to the Present - Tom J. Smyth 3. Parliamentary Information in Canada: Form and Function - Talia Chung and Maureen Martyn 4. Commissions and Tribunals - Caron Rollins II Provincial Landscape 5. Alberta Government Publishing - Dani J. Pahulje 6. Saskatchewan Government Publications Deposit in the Legislative Library - Gregory Salmers 7. Inside Track: Challenges of Collecting, Accessing, and Preserving Ontario Government Publications - Sandra Craig and Martha Murphy 8. Digitization of Government Publications: A Review of the Ontario Digitization Initiative - Carol Perry, Brian Tobin, and Sam-chin Li III Looking Forward: Collaborative Stewardship 9. GALLOP Portal: Making Government Publications in Legislative Libraries Findable - Peter Ellinger 10. The Canadian Government Information Digital Preservation Network: A Collective Response to a National Crisis - Amanda Wakaruk and Steve Marks 11. Web Harvesting and Reporting Fugitive Government Materials: Collaborative Stewardship of At-Risk Documents - Susan Paterson, Nicholas Worby, and Darlene Fichter Contributors Index