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Led by DCPL, libraries are helping patrons save their mementos— and learn the basics of digital preservation in the process.
“You can’t just toss your memories in a shoebox and stick them on a shelf anymore,” says DCPL’s digital curation librarian Lauren Algee. “VHS tapes and magnetic media are at great risk of degradation, so saving them is kind of now or never. If these materials don’t survive into the future, what will we, as curators, have to collect from?”
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Q for archivists and librarians:
I’m back from London and have lots of stuff I want to preserve from my trip. Most of it is paper, like train tickets, but a little bit might be slightly more 3-d (probably all flat, though).
What do you use for your personal archives? I thought I might want something more than the traditional scrapbook with plastic sheets over sticky pages. Any suggestions? Brand recommendations?
Because Friday's Personal Archiving Day! (via Library of Congress Digital Preservation)
Personal Archiving Preserving Your Digital Memories
Personal Archiving | Digital Photographs | Digital Audio | Digital Video | Electronic Mail | Personal Digital Records | Websites
Overview
"Introduction to Scanning"
The Library of Congress and Personal Digital Archiving (PDF, 751 Kb)
How to Scan Your Personal Collections (PDF, 78 Kb)
How Long Will Digital Storage Media Last? (PDF, 83 Kb)
"Why Digital Preservation is Important for You"
Personal Archiving Brochure (PDF, 1.7MB)
Low-Cost Ways to Preserve Family Archives
How to Preserve Your Own Digital Materials
Digital Photographs
Digital Audio
Digital Video
Electronic Mail
Personal Digital Records
Websites
NDIIPP publication: "Perspectives on Personal Digital Archiving" (2013)
This publication contains a series of blog posts, compiled from The Signal, on the subject of personal digital archiving. Specifically, the topics include guidance for such things as choosing file formats and adding descriptions to digital photos; first hand accounts of working with and preserving personal collections; descriptions of outreach activities and interviews with library professionals on the subject of personal digital archiving, and many others.
Link to the full publication (PDF).
Personal Digital Archiving Day Kit
The Library of Congress has held Personal Digital Archiving Day events to provide this basic guidance to individuals about preserving personal and family memories in digital form. You can read about those events here and here and here.
Are you interested in hosting your own personal digital archiving event? Take a look at our Personal Digital Archiving Day Kit for planning guidance and relevant information resources you can use to develop your own program.
Learn More
Personal Digital Memories Poster (PDF, 4.6 Mb) A printable version of a poster presented at iPRES2010, that discusses our Personal Archiving activities.
Watch "Why Digital Preservation is Important for Everyone" This short video explores how digital content – unlike content on traditional media – depends on technology to make it available.
Take the quiz Learn interesting facts! Did you know that digital materials can be more difficult to preserve than physical materials?
"Preserving Digital Culture" Presentation An interactive slideshow about digital heritage and the importance of digital preservation.
Personal Digital Archiving in a Few Simple Steps
We cannot save our digital possessions — such as photos, documents, and recordings — in the same way that we save our material possessions. For example, we can toss paper photos in a box and trust that they will be safe for decades. But this benign neglect doesn’t apply to our digital possessions. Technology changes rapidly and, without proper care, our digital possessions may get trapped on obsolete computer hardware and become difficult to access
A free PDF on personal digital archiving. It's got tips on photo preservation and outreach written for all levels.
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