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State Library describes GIS, government information and natural heritage services; 32,000 state publications digitized
Summary
At the final day of the State Library budget hearings, State Librarian Jenny Stapp described the library's GIS and information-access programs, including the Natural Resource Information System (NRIS), the Natural Heritage Program, website archiving with the Internet Archive, and a digital state depository of more than 32,000 publications.
State Librarian Jenny Stapp told the Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Education that the Montana State Library's GIS and information-access programs provide statewide collections and tools used for research, regulatory filings and local planning.
Stapp said the library maintains a modern state depository of government publications and an archive of agency websites under contract with the Internet Archive. “We currently have a little over 32,000 digitized state publications that are freely available online,” Stapp said, noting the library worked with the Montana Historical Society and other partners to digitize legacy publications dating to territorial records. She said the Internet Archive crawling dates back to 1996 and that the library uses archived…
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