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Hi, Wordpress. It’s been a while. / So, the Personal Archiving Lab at the Madison Public Library has been up and running for about two months now — and the response has been many things: wond…
You shouldn't necessarily rely on the platforms and apps you are using to live stream to save your content, whether you're broadcasting from Facebook or Periscope. We share tips for alternative s...
Digitizing and Democratizing New York City's Cultural Heritage
This is a guest post by Jaime Mears. On March 4th, 2016, the Washington DC Public Library hosted Digital Curation and the Public: Strategies for Education and Advocacy at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library. It was what the National Digital Stewardship Residents program calls an “enrichment session” and the audience was composed of NDSR colleagues and mentors. […]
How did they staff it? Reskilling existing staff.
The Labs at DC Public Library are located at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, which is currently open for limited-services. Learn more here. Reservations can be made below. What is the Memory Lab? | Why should I care about personal archiving? Our partners | Membership process | Age policy | More info What is the Memory Lab? It's a place. The lab provides equipment for digitizing home movies and scanning photographs and slides. It's a do-it-yourself (DIY) model, meaning we provide step-by-step instructions, but you control the process from start to finish.
The guilty pleasure of reading politicians’ emails.
D-Lib Magazine
Archives are spaces in which materials of historic interest or cultural significance are stored and ordered. Archives have a unique power to capture and…
Update: I first pitched this series to Tuts+ because I thought it was an interesting, under-reported topic. After completing the first two episodes, I learned that I had a treatable, operable,...
By early December 2014, a Congressional election year, newly elected Members of Congress were preparing for public service as outgoing Members were ending their public service and attending exit briefings. At an event sponsored by the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress, the December 3rd “Life After Congress” seminar, Robin Reeder, Archivist of the […]
Around the year 2007, just after Thanksgiving, my grandmother noticed a tiny seed near the faucet of her kitchen sink that had somehow, implausibly,...
If you use a computer, you likely have digital assets that should be addressed as part of your estate planning. Access to digital assets is governed…
Cases like Rodney King, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner and Michael Brown have helped fuel demands for police accountability. We are joined by a guest who has advice for the growing number of people filming police abuse with their smartphones and video cameras, particularly with respect to how to properly preserve such video. Yvonne Ng is senior archivist for WITNESS, a group that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights. She co-authored their resource, “Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video.” Watch part two of this interview.
Modern technology makes our lives more convenient, and our deaths more complicated. Today when we die we leave behind not just physical belongings but also a vast amount of electronic “belongings.”
"It’s clear that we stand to lose an awful lot of our history," Vint Cerf said, arguing that the software programs used to view information die out far quicker than papyrus ever did.