Understanding institutional roles and responsibilities of state LARM units was identified by the Library of Congress States Workshop participants as necessary to the process of partnership development. The participants noted that this information would also inform the development of digital preservation programs.

As shown in Table 4, a number of other units in all three branches either share authority for setting standards and responsibility for providing services with LARM units or have sole responsibility. The IT unit, in particular, stands out across all three branches of government as holding a significant role in the standards setting process and in providing services related to digital preservation. The units identified as consistently playing a central role include the office of the state CIO or its equivalent and IT units in the legislative and judicial branches. In addition, respondents identified statewide committees and commissions (some of which are IT focused) and specific units within legislative and judicial agencies as also having responsibilities with regard to the preservation of state government digital information.

Table 4. Units other than LARM with authority for setting standards for and providing services to executive, legislative, and judicial agencies
Other unit category	Other unit named by respondents
State IT unit	Office of the State CIO
	Enterprise Technology Services
	Department of Administration or Administrative Services (IT Divisions)
	Bureau of Information and Technology
	Department of Information and Innovation
	Office of Information Technology
Committee or commission	The State Records Board
	Legislative Information Technology Committee
	Information Technology Advisory Council
	Information Technology Resource Management Council
	Architecture Oversight Committee, chaired by the CIO
Legislative unit	Legislature
	Legislative Auditor
	Legislative Budgetary Council
	The Law and Research Library
	Information Technology Division of the General Assembly
	Offices of the Senate and House
	Legislative Reference Bureau
	Legislative Printing, Information, and Technology Systems
Judicial unit	Judiciary
	Administrative Office of the Courts
	Director of Information Systems for the Judiciary
	Information Technology and Communications Division of the Judiciary
	Superior Courts Clerks Authority
	Judiciary CIO