Your Personal Archiving Project: Where Do You Start?

Your Personal Archiving Project: Where Do You Start?

Personal Archives

This resource from the Library of Congress, a well-trusted and respected organization, is a valuable one to share. The message of this article is to those who archive, and, as the article states, everyone does eventually have to deal with archiving information at some point. Ashenfelder provides an easy to understand and relatable discussion on archiving and how to go about understanding it. He discusses concepts such as clumps, work time, and work space, providing somewhat of a plan for those being introduced to the archiving process. Ashenfelder also provides information on different types of media and how archiving changes for each of these mediums. The quest to simplify and emphasize the use of digital archives is what will progress the field of digital archiving into the future, and through the content of the article it is clear that Ashenfelder and the Library of Congress encourages such evolution of technology.
I think this resource is both well-worded and well-researched. Ashenfelder provides external discussion on archiving through the interviews and discussions with experts such as Kells and McAleer which strengthens the reader’s understanding of archiving. With less technical and more relative information, this is a very good resource for those starting out with archiving, either in their personal lives or their studies on the subject.

Ashenfelder, Mike

Library of Congress

2016-05-11

Meagan Roge

Online Journal

Ashenfelder, Mike. “Your Personal Archiving Project: Where Do You Start?” The Signal, (2016). Accessed April 8, 2020. https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2016/05/how-to-begin-a-personal-archiving-project/.