The following guest post by Josh Levy, Historian of Science and Technology in the Library’s Manuscript Division, is part two of a series. You can find Part 1 of the series, “Doing History with Born Digital Files: the Rhoda Métraux and Edward Lorenz Papers,” posted on The Signal.
Archives can’t just collect physical objects anymore. If you want to document the lives of the people and organizations who shape American history and culture, as the Manuscript Division does, you have to follow them to digital spaces too. That means collecting bor