Katie Cuyler, a public services and government information librarian at the University of Alberta, said they ramped up downloading documents in advance of the provincial election
An Alberta librarian has been archiving much of the provincial government’s online content – including studies on health, climate change policy and poverty reduction – to prepare for a change in government.
Katie Cuyler, a public services and government information librarian at the University of Alberta, said staff used to get paper copies of all government documents but that procedure changed when reports started going online.“The problem with everything being online is that when there is a new government or new policies, they just change their websites,” she said in an interview with The Canadian Press. “You can lose access to a lot of their reports or data.
“This year was interesting because there were some industry analysts and researchers who reached out to me because they had concerns about certain data and reports that they rely upon, that they were worried would not be up any more,” she said. A similar effort took place in Ontario shortly after the Progressive Conservatives won a majority government in the province last June.“Environmental initiatives like the GreenON rebate program were shuttered and then their web presence was removed within days,” he said in a news release. “That information is only available now through the archives by the University of Toronto and the Internet Archive.
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