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AC/E digital culture ANNUAL REPORT 2014IMAGE 1:Home Page of the NC State Government Web Site Archives, http://webarchives.ncdcr.gov/IMAGE 2:"About" the NC state Government Web Site Archives,http://webarchives.ncdcr.gov/about.htmlIMAGE 3:Montana State Library borne page, http://rnsl.rnt.gov/IMAGE 4:Detail of Montana State Library borne page footerlibrary’s goal for providing access through their own website is to “create a single identifiable brand that will be associated with state government informa‐ tion” (personal correspondence with Beth Downs, Ja‐ mes Kammerer and Chris Stockwell, May, 2012). Mon‐ tana has also found other innovative ways to draw at‐ tention to their web archives. All Montana State Libra‐ ry webpages contain a “page history” link in the foo‐ ter. These links direct visitors to archived versions of the web page so they can see how it has changed over time. For example the “page history” on the state library’s home web page http://msl.mt.gov/1 directs the visitor to a list of easy to browse capture dates for that web page: http://wayback.archive‐it.org/ 499/query?type=urlquery&url=http://msl.mt.gov/ &dates=AC/E 1d. PreservationData gathered in preparation for this paper suggests that preservation is an evolving issue for institutions that archive the web, which goes hand in hand with the evolving nature of digital preservation and the development of digital repositories. The Archive‐It team found that their partners tend to employ seve‐ ral different preservation strategies. Many institu‐ tions that work with the Archive‐It service rely on the Internet Archive for storage and preservation of their WARC files and associated metadata. There are several partners that also transfer their data to a local hard drive or download their WARC files direc‐ tly from Internet Archive servers. A few partner insti‐ tutions are working to incorporate WARC files into their local digital repository, although these projects are still in their infancy.WHERE WE ARE HEADING: DIGITAL TRENDS IN THE WORLD OF CULTURETHEME 7: THE WEB ARCHIVING LIFE CYCLE MODELCURRENT PAGE...88