LoCALDig Blog

Undocumented immigration is among the most debated public policy issues in the United States....Read more about Undocumented Immigrants in California: Evidence from Local Government Publications

As part of the California Local Government Documents Digitization Project, the IGS Library processed California Local Government Pamphlets: Early Municipal Governance in Practice ...Read more about California Local Government Pamphlets: Early Municipal Governance in Practice

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

Digitized in February 2025 as part of the California Local Government Documents Collection, the Loyola Corners Neighborhood Commercial Center Specific Plan (City of Los Altos, 1990) offers a vivid example of how local governments use specific...Read more about Spotlight on Local Planning: The Loyola Corners Specific Plan

One of my favorite parts of working with the library's document collection is getting to take in all the imagery. In his poem "A Supermarket in California," Allen Ginsberg...Read more about Student Assistant Allie Carr: Shopping For Images

Welcome back to another dive into California's local history!

If you've been following our blog on the CA Local Documents Digitization Project website, you know that the...Read more about A History of Berkeley

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!

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California has become the epicenter of wildfire devastation, with recent years marked by unprecedented destruction and loss of life. The state now...Read more about California wildfires: documents in the California Local Government Documents digitization collection

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

The California Local Government Documents Collection (LoCALDig) is live! This new collection from the Institute of Governmental Studies Library (IGSL) is now available to search...Read more about Democratizing Access: The IGS Library Digitizes California Local Government Documents