Preserving Born-digital Government Information & Revisiting the Scopes Trial with Primary Sources – The latest UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter Now Posted!

The latest UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter has posted, it features these new articles:

Preserving Born-Digital Government Information: What Librarians Can Do
A query from a faculty member led CDL’s Digitization team on a quest to discover where government reports in PDF format might be preserved and accessed. In this article, Kris Kasianovitz, director of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library at UC Berkeley, guides us through current unprecedented threats to government information and what librarians can do (and are doing!) to help ameliorate the situation.

Scopes Trial Centennial: HathiTrust Doesn’t Monkey Around with Primary Sources
One hundred years ago this summer, the Scopes Monkey Trial became a huge media sensation. HathiTrust’s collection offers hundreds of public domain primary resources that capture the voices of the times, including the trail’s protagonists, reporters, editorialists, historians, and even the banned textbook John T. Scopes used to teach evolution.

In addition to the articles, the newsletter provides updates on recent happenings at HathiTrust.