Regardless of who wins this November’s presidential election, the business of government still chugs along. Or does it? With so much of the daily activity of the federal government now conducted on the web, the effect of a change of administration becomes a matter of curiosity or even anxiety. In 2001 and 2004, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA; www.archives.gov) created a "snapshot" crawl of federal agency websites (109th Congress and 2004 presidential term available at www.webharvest.gov). However, in March, NARA announced it would not conduct the same kind of snapshot for 2008/2009. Responding to the possible loss of an historically important record, five agencies and organizations-- the Library of Congress (LC; www.loc.gov), Internet Archive (www.archive.org), California Digital Library (www.cdlib.org), University of North Texas Libraries (www.library.unt.edu), and the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO; www.gpo.gov) --have partnered to take on the task.
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