My own work at the British Library of Political and Economic Science is concerned with the Politics section. In common with the other editors I spend half a day each week working on my section. This involves the identification of relevant resources, creation of records and editing of existing records to ensure that they are kept up to date. The collection is selective. It also includes many different types of resources such as datasets, documents, mail archives, electronic journals and the homepages of organisations.
All resources are quality assessed before inclusion.
Sites which consist purely of advertising or lists of links with no added annotations are excluded. In terms of politics a wealth of resources can be found on the Internet. These include election sites which are updated almost continuously with news from campaigns and opinion polls in a way that is not possible with paper sources. Many also contain the added value of audio and visual clips. It is also possible to access Hansard parliamentary minutes from a number of parliaments world-wide, including the UK, Canada and South Africa.