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November 5 2024 General Election

List of 2024 Qualified Statewide Ballot Measures CA Secretary of State certified results, as reported in the Statement of Vote, November 5, 2024 General Election. Title Yes votes No votes Proposition 2 (2024...

November 4, 2025 Special Election

2025 Qualified Statewide Ballot Measure

*Final votes will be posted once the CA Secretary of State has certified the results, which can take up to 38 days after election night.

Title Yes votes* No votes* Proposition 50 - Authorizes Temporary Changes to Congressional District Maps in Response to Texas' Partisan Redistricting...

Addressing Homelessness: California Local Government Documents

September 26, 2025
Paul King
a five year strategic homeless plan Note about the document type: The Continuum of Care (CoC) program is a key initiative administered by the U.S. Department of...

Student Assistant Allie Carr: Shopping For Images

September 15, 2025
Allie Carr

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 describes walking through the grocery store as "shopping for images." That's exactly how it feels to thumb through a cart full of documents—it's like shopping for images on the front covers of assorted plans and reports. It's a similar act to flipping through crates of vinyl at a record store, patiently...

Democratizing Access: The Life Cycle of a Local Government Document in the LoCalDig Project

August 20, 2025
Paul King

Scanning Station Shelves


We're excited to announce the release of a new video that provides an inside look at the...

5000th item digitized!

July 9, 2025
Paul King

San Francisco Drug Rebellion Telecommunications in the SCAG Region...

California wildfires: documents in the California Local Government Documents digitization collection

June 2, 2025
Paul King
Hazard mitigation report for the East Bay fire in the Oakland-Berkeley hills The East Bay hills fire ...

The Library Corner

News, stories, and updates from the Institute of Governmental Studies Library Desk.

A History of Berkeley

August 4, 2025
Paul King

A History of Berkeley

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 Institute of...

Nick Norman - Making the Inaccessible Accessible

March 24, 2025
Paul King

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 creation of e-government, which provides centralized online access to many government resources, many collections remain incomplete. Historical publications are often missing from digital archives, and web content frequently changes or disappears altogether.

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