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  The End of Term Web Archive: Collecting & Preserving the .gov Information Sphere

  James Jacobs and Jefferson Bailey

  In the fall of 2016, a group of institutions – Internet Archive, Library of Congress, CA Digital Library, and libraries from the University of North Texas, Stanford University, and George Washington University – organized to preserve a snapshot of the federal government website. This is the third time this End of Term (EOT) group has organized with the goals of identifying, harvesting, preserving, and providing access to a snapshot of the federal government web presence. They do this for two important reasons. The first is that the transition of elected officials in the federal government’s executive branch prompts a reset of sites like www.WhiteHouse.gov, so it’s critical to document the changes. The EOT group’s work also provides a broad snapshot of the federal domain once every four years; it’s replicated among a number of organizations for long-term preservation.

  Jefferson Bailey from the Internet Archive and James Jacobs from Stanford University Libraries discussed the project’s methods for identifying and selecting in-scope content, strategies for capturing web content, and access models for collected content. The two highlighted the challenges and opportunities of large-scale, distributed, multi-institutional, born-digital collecting and preservation efforts; how the project aligns with participant institutions collection mandates; the project’s importance for archiving historically-valuable but highly-ephemeral web content without a clear steward; and how the breadth and size of the EOT Web Archive informs both new methods of collaboration and new models for data-driven access and analysis by researchers. Our speakers also discussed the project’s alliance with other government data preservation projects as well as ideas and future plans for long-term sustainable methods for collecting, preserving and maintaining the .gov information ecosystem.

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  Tale of an E-Portfolio

  Catherine Folnovic

  A presentation by Catherine Folnovic, a graduate of San Jose State University's Master of Archives and Records Administration program, on her experience completing the e-portfolio. The e-portfolio is the culminating project to complete a Master's degree from San Jose State University's School of Information.

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  Oral History in Archives and Practice

  Lauren Kata

  A presentation about oral history and archives from presenter Lauren Kata. Kata serves as the archivist for Collections Management and Digital Access for The Archives of the Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas. From 2009-2012 she served as the Coordinator of SAA’s 75th Anniversary Oral History Project. In this presentation, Kata shared her views on this special project and the importance of oral history.

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  Benefits of SAA Membership and ACA Certification

  Sammie L. Morris and Brenda Gunn

  A presentation by Sammie L. Morris, Director of the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center at Purdue University, and Brenda Gunn, Janey Slaughter Briscoe Archivist and Director for Research and Collections at the Briscoe Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Morris discusses the benefits of being member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA). Gunn, also a past president of ACA, will discuss the benefits of and ways to prepare for the archival certification exam hosted by the Academy of Certified Archivists (ACA).

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  Cultural Competency and Diversity in the Archives

  Helen Wong Smith and Rebecca Hankins

  A presentation by Helen Wong Smith, librarian and certified archivist, and Rebecca Hankins, Associate Professor and certified archivist/librarian, on diversity and cultural competency in archives and the archival community.