The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the Brazilian Presidential Transition (2018) Web Archive. Built by the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, member libraries of the Latin America Libraries of the Northeast Group, and with significant contributions from members of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, the Archive comprises Brazilian government websites in the areas of human rights, the environment, LGBTQ issues, and culture, for the period following the election of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil on October 28, 2018, up to his inauguration on January 1, 2019. The collection targets web content considered to be vulnerable due to the anticipated consolidation or elimination in the aforementioned areas, and represents a snapshot of government content before Bolsonaro took office, with the aim of preserving these important, but potentially ephemeral, documents for researchers and scholars.

The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is a partnership between Brown University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, and Yale University. The Web Resources Collection Program is an initiative of the Confederation’s Collection Development Group, under the direction of the Web Advisory Committee and Samantha Abrams, the Web Resources Collection Librarian. Now in its second year, the program has six additional public collections: the Collaborative Architecture, Urbanism, and Sustainability Web Archive; the Contemporary Composers Web Archive; the Global Webcomics Web Archive; the National Statistical Offices and Central Banks Web Archive; the Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art Web Archive, and the State Elections Web Archive.

If you have questions about the Brazilian Presidential Transition (2018) Web Archive or the larger Web Collecting Program, please reach out to ivyplusweb@library.columbia.edu.