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Collection Plan
View the official collection plan for The Chesapeake Project's pilot digital preservation program, updated August 2008 (1.8 MB)


First-Year Pilot Project Evaluation
The Chesapeake Project's first-year project evlaution, completed in April 2008, is now available online (1.1 MB)


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About The Chesapeake Project
The Chesapeake Project is a two-year pilot digital preservation program established to preserve and ensure permanent access to vital legal information currently available in digital formats on the World Wide Web. Find out more about our project.

Project Case Study
Preserving and Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digitally Born Legal Information, a case study of The Chesapeake Project and a survey of state and academic law libraries' digital preservation activities in the United States, has been published as part of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) 36th Annual Conference proceedings.

The Legal Information Preservation Alliance
The Chesapeake Project was implemented in early 2007 under the auspices of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA), an independent organization of law libraries supported by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), by three LIPA-member libraries: the Georgetown Law Library and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia.