J-5 Advocating for Authentication of and Permanent Public Access to Electronic Government Legal Information

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Tuesday, July 28 - 2:30pm - 3:15pm
Location: 
WCC-Room 151 AB
Target Audience: 
Law librarians who are interested in the access to and reliability of online legal information
Learning Outcomes: 
1) Participants will be able to explain to decision makers the need for authenticated electronic information.
2) Participants will be able to explain to decision makers the need for permanent access to electronic information.

Among the findings of the State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources were: No state’s online primary legal resources are authenticated or afford ready authentication by standard methods, and only eight states have provided for permanent public access (PPA) to one or more of their online primary legal resources. These findings establish a critical need for action. A number of government agencies have begun to address these issues at a federal level. These agencies’ procedures can provide a model law librarians can use to present a case in their home states to ensure that the information state governments make available electronically is in an authenticated format and is permanently preserved. Participants will be provided with information to be able to answer the questions: “What is it?” “Why do we need it?” and “How do we do it?”

Speaker(s): 
Kathy Carlson, Coordinator and Moderator, Wyoming State Law Library
Lisa Russell, U.S. Government Printing Office
Catherine Sanders Reach, American Bar Association