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Connecticut Digital Archive

Section 11-9c of the Connecticut General Statutes states that: "The State Library shall administer and provide access to the public, on a permanent basis, to a collection of tangible state publications, and to a digital archive of intangible state publications, and a depository library system." The Connecticut Digital Archive collects, preserves, and makes accessible the electronic publications of Connecticut State agencies.

Benefits to State Agencies

• Preservation of agency publications. The State Library has collected, organized and preserved the tangible publications of State agencies for over 150 years. Now the Library is preserving the electronic publications of State agencies.
• Integration of tangible and electronic resources. Through CONSULS, the State Library Catalog, the transition from paper to electronic publishing becomes transparent. Agency electronic publications can be accessed in their entirety.
  The same search benefits (advanced authority control, serials analysis, refined subject access, and multiple field searching) that make a library catalog a much more precise search tool than a Web search engine are applied to both tangible and electronic resources. Thus the full historical range of an Agency's publications can be accessed in the same database search.

• Local, statewide, and worldwide access to government research. A powerful benefit is the ability to share the work and research of Connecticut state government agencies with public policy institutions throughout the United States and the world. The publications in the Connecticut Digital Archive are not only added to CONSULS, (shared with the four state universities), but also to reQuest (the statewide union catalog) and to WorldCat, a worldwide union catalog maintained by OCLC, the Online Library Computer Center, Inc.

Procedure for Adding Publications to the Connecticut Digital Archive

• Consult Connecticut State Documents Depository Library Program and Connecticut Digital Archive, page 2, for instructions on what types of documents to submit.
• Send the URL for any newly posted document or for any document being removed from your Agency's Website to: CDA@cslib.org
• Use "New agency publication" or "Removed agency publication" in the subject line of the message.

Contact Steve Rice, srice@cslib.org  (860)757-6500 with any questions about Connecticut state digital publications.