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Book Talk: Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future Online

What Does It Take to Preserve Government Information in a Digital World?

Join us as Stanford’s own U.S. Government Information Librarian, James Jacobs, alongside his co-author, Jim Jacobs, share insights from their latest book, Preserving Government Information.This books examines how preservation practices of the past affect the preservation of digitally published government information today, analyzes publishing and preservation data to characterize the current gaps in preservation, and looks to the future by charting a path to a distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure for government information.

Related LibGuide: Gear Up for Social Science Data by Miranda Irizarry

Date:
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Time:
11:00am - 12:00pm
Time Zone:
Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Tierney Room (Green Library 121A)
Categories:
  Data  
Online:
This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.

Registration is required. There are 29 in-person seats available. There are 28 online seats available.

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James Jacobs
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Miranda Irizarry