SALAD my experience collecting and providing access to electronic Arizona government documents Lindsay O’Neill Library Information Specialist Lead Government Documents Service Arizona State University Libraries Currently Instructional Design Librarian California State University, Fullerton
What is SALAD? Includes: Transportation planning Environmental impact studies Annual reports Statistics And more! Arizona Game & Fish Doing Things to a Bald Eagle
A Short History of SALAD Print Collection Pre-1970s: Collecting begins Today: 18,000+ titles in the collection – Holdings span Arizona Territory to present day – Continuing efforts to collect print, but electronic is preferred
A Short History of SALAD Digital Collection 2000-ish: Print starts to decline 2006: SALAD digital repository proposed 2012: ASU Digital Repository goes live Today: – 6,700+ electronic docs collected – titles available online Behold the Internet!
How did I get here?
Browse Systematic browsing Download Download one-by-one Describe Collect metadata Catalog Catalog and upload Making the SALAD Bigger
Browse Systematic exploration of government websites Wayback Machine to discover previous versions/issues archive.org
Download Save PDFs to shared drive Merge multiple PDFs as necessary – time consuming!
Describe Plain text file with URL and any notes Organize in folders by government entity and department
Catalog Cataloger accesses files on shared drive Creates bib record and uploads to ASU Digital Repository
Sometimes collecting for SALAD felt like this.
And sometimes it felt like this.
Results In 1.5 years, I collected 1,890 new documents I grew the SALAD collection by 39% I developed workflows in collaboration with the cataloger I gained an appreciation for the wonders of GovDocs Teamwork!
Questions? You can also me:
SALAD libguides.asu.edu/salad repository.asu.edu/ collections/16