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Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The following is a guest post by Ellysa Stern Cahoy, Education & Behavioral Sciences Librarian Instruction Coordinator, Penn State University Libraries. “What’s in your library?” I love to ask this question of the college students that I teach, as they are (whether they realize it or not) continually building their own personal libraries on their …
Posted in: Personal Archiving
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
Jeff Ubois has devoted his career researching, writing about and promoting the preservation of culture. He has been involved with the Bassetti Foundation (whose mission is “…to promote responsibility in innovation”), New York’s PBS affiliate Thirteen/WNET, the Internet Archive, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, various museums, video archives and more. Currently he is …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. Here on The Signal we often talk about the importance of preserving your personal digital materials and we provide a variety of resources offering guidance on what actions to take. One aspect we have spoken of …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
Last October I wrote about the importance – and the difficulty – of embedding descriptions into digital photos. As a test, I ended the article by asking readers to download a photo into which I embedded a quote from Benjamin Franklin. I also asked readers to let me know if they could see the quote …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving, Tools and Infrastructure