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Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
This is a guest post by Lisa Gregory, Digital Projects Liaison, Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina. About two weeks ago, I tried a little thought experiment. Throughout the course of an afternoon, for each person I spoke with or saw, I imagined myself talking to them about digital preservation. From grocery store …
Posted in: Personal Archiving
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. With the large size and amount of my personal digital archives, my archiving problem may be a bit extreme, but I think a description of my archiving system may be helpful to many people who want to save and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Erin Engle
I’ve written a couple of blog posts (as a guest blogger) about the personal digital archiving talks I’ve given and about some of our events. So for my first post as an “official” NDIIPP blogger, it seems fitting I write about a recent talk I gave at a meeting of the Washington DC Chapter of …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Keri A. Myers, a volunteer archivist with NDIIPP. I never planned to have obsolete digital storage media as a traveling companion. It just kind of happened. And I’m an archivist with lots of experience working with digital materials! This summer I relocated to the Washington DC area after …
Posted in: Personal Archiving
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
The following is a guest post by Erin Engle, Digital Archivist, NDIIPP. Last weekend, I participated in the Save Our African American Treasures Program at the Houston Public Library. The Treasures Program is a collections and education initiative of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. For the past few years, NMAAHC’s …
Posted in: Outreach and Events, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. The numbers are staggering – an estimated 2.5 billion people in the world have digital cameras! They take perhaps 3.75 billion pictures each year. And we love to share those pictures – hundreds of millions of pictures are uploaded …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
“I just want to use it; I don’t want to know how it works.” – Unknown My Signal colleagues and I give out digital-preservation advice based on our research, our experiences and our understanding of best practices. We also try to pay attention to questions from the general public, with whom we interact at events …
Posted in: Personal Archiving, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
Like many of you, I’ve got hundreds (thousands?) of photos. This is one of my favorites: It’s not the most flattering photo in my collection, but it was taken by a good friend back when I was still a crazy grad student, and I crack up every time I see it. Of course, the photo …
Posted in: Digital Content, Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Bill LeFurgy
In truth, every day is digital archives day here at the Library. But, in honor of the official Digital Archives Day, I thought it would be useful to mention some of the pertinent resources the Library has or helps support. There are two basic categories: 1) digital content collections, and 2) information about digital projects …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Personal Archiving, Publications and Resources