Info Pimp

"Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books." Guy Browning (The Guardian column, www.guardian.co.uk 18 October 2003)

Monday, August 01, 2005

Now where did I put that government publication?

Don't you think that all the time?
Seems the government does...

"Missing e-government publications.
Librarians are concerned about government publications that were published on the Internet but have now disappeared or where links no longer work.
This is also a growing problem for researchers inAustralia who have reported problems in tracking down government reports originally published on the web but which have now become unavailable ordifficult to find.

The PANDORA digital archive is interested in investigating, on a trial basis until the end of August 2005, the status of these missing e-government publications.
If you know of a missing e-government publication and can provide some details, please report it to: Margaret Phillips, Director Digital Archiving, National Library of Australia mphillips@nla.gov.au
Please provide as much information as possible, for example, exact title, corporate author and any other author, the original URL and any subsequent URL, even if this is also now defunct. The more details that are available, the more likely it is that we will be able either to confirm its status as missing or perhaps locate it at some other source and ascertain its history. "

So let 'em know if you see any running free in the internet, folks. *grins*

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