Since December 2023, I’ve been pulling local government documents—usually issued by cities, towns, and regional authorities—from our library stacks, preparing them for our digitization partners, and then reshelving them once again. In the...Read more about Dusty Shelves and the Quiet Work of Democracy
The Institute of Governmental Studies Library (IGSL) at UC Berkeley has reached a remarkable achievement: more than 5,000 local government documents from across California have been digitized and made freely accessible to the public!
I initially encountered the IGS Student Library Assistant position during my study abroad program in Morocco. Through this program, I visited al-Qarawiyyin, the oldest standing library in the world, and had the opportunity to explore preserved books dating centuries before us. As I...Read more about Student Assistant Habiba Hesham Geweifal: What the Project Means to Me
In an era where digital access to information is more crucial than ever, the IGS Library’s California Local Government Documents Collection (LoCALDig) project plays a vital role in making previously unavailable government information accessible. While the internet has enabled the...Read more about Nick Norman - Making the Inaccessible Accessible
