Monday, October 13, 2003

California Recall Election Project The California Digital Library (CDL) recognizes the historical significance of the California Recall Election and that material related to this momentous occasion will have lasting value to UC researchers. They also recognize that much of this material is on the web and therefore extremely volatile. With assistance from Gabriella Gray at the UCLA Online Campaign Literature Archive and in cooperation with the Stanford Computer Science Department, CDL is crawling and saving web sites associated with the CA Recall Election. Their collection development policy is modeled on the Library of Congress' Minerva project. The UCB Institute of Governmental Studies' "Recall in California" site has also been an excellent resource for subject scope.   Materials being collecting include: a. Candidate sites b. Interest groups (special interest groups specific to the CA recall) c. Political Parties (state level) d. Media (newspapers, media web sites (including Spanish-language)) e. Government (CA Secretary of State and all county registrar of voters) f. Commentary and Humor (satire, etc.) g. Institutions (web guides, directories, etc.) h. Miscellaneous (polls, blogs, non-partisan watchdog sites) The next step for the project will be exploring possibilities for presentation and access to these materials. Please direct questions or comments to Heather Christenson,  heather.christenson@ucop.edu 4:35:13 PM    comment []

Summary for week of October 6, 2003 In News note the U.S. articles "Layoffs cut UC's least-paid " about families who worry about how to survive after unexpected job losses and about Chrysler's new contract with the United Auto Workers, which appears to be of little use in the union's effort to unionize a plant operated by another DaimlerChrysler unit. Internationally, see another academia- related article about the British lecturers' union claiming that universities were spending too much on building up human resources departments and not enough on academic salaries. Also included is an article from East Timor about United Nations police arresting a union official. In Resources we have a release about the Labor Heritage Foundation's new Fall 2003 catalog of music, art, books and video.   9:44:52 AM    comment []

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