The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives.
In a previous post I reviewed my process for end-of-the-year archiving of my picture and personal files onto two external hard disk drives. This year I went an extra step – I added all the files saved in my CD-ROM archive over the past 16 years to my external hard disk drive archive. This second step is the subject of this blog post – that is, facing the reality, on a personal level, of all the issues archivists have discussed for years.
