The State Library’s mission is to preserve and make accessible Connecticut’s history and heritage and to advance the development of library services statewide.  This three part series dove deeply into the first part of that mission. Participants followed the government paper trail from the arrival of the earliest colonists to today. Sessions covered  the history of recordkeeping in Connecticut from parchment to petabytes; why and how government should manage its records for efficiency and accessibility; what makes a record historical; and how to access in-person and on-line the variety of state and local government printed resources and archives and manuscripts found at the Connecticut State Library.