Kari May Digital Archives & Preservation Librarian for the University of Pittsburgh Library System In the previous post, Part 1: Keeping It Real, we looked at the challenges inherent in writing…

Hyeeyoung Kim and Brenna Edwards This blog post is based on a presentation at BitCurator Forum on June 17, 2026.  Have you ever been asked one of the following:  How many items have you i…

Kari May Digital Archives & Preservation Librarian for the University of Pittsburgh Library System No one-size-fits-all answer exists for preserving digital content. Digital preservationists kn…

By Karyn Williamson, Digital Preservation Specialist with the Digital Preservation Coalition If you’ve ever worked with community groups, you’ll know that the passion they have about…

by Nathan Tallman, Executive Director Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) It’s Tuesday morning. An automated fixity report lands in your inbox. Twenty-seven objects in a high-value collectio…

By Aaron Pahl, Digital Curation Librarian at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Archives, museums, and library special collections are filled with handwritten material and text too difficult f…

By Linda Smith I recently read Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Richard Ovenden. The tales of loss of the libraries and archives throughout history remain …

By Susan Borda and Scott Witmer  Adapted from the DPC Digital Preservation Workflow Webinar series, March 2026 The University of Michigan Library web archiving initiative began as a pilot prog…

By Dr. Leontien Talboom The Copy That Floppy! Guide is one of the main outputs of the Future Nostalgia project. It focuses on imaging floppy disks for long-term preservation and is now available on…

In this blog, Elias Larralde shares his experience and workflow using OpenRefine, an open source program for data cleaning, to deduplicate correspondents in the Richard Garwin email collection at t…

A Web Archiving Journey In 2024, Duke Kunshan University (DKU), located between Suzhou and Shanghai, hired me, Ryder Kouba, as the first Archives and Special Collections Librarian in school history…

This interview by Kari May is the thirteenth post in a new series of conversations between archivists actively working with digital materials. Carol Kussmann, is the Digital Preservation Analyst at…

By Grayson Murphy This blog post is adapted from lighting talk given at the 2025 NDSA Digital Preservation Virtual Conference. Theses and Dissertations are the main research output of graduate stud…

A core theme of talking with Greg is that our profession faces significant resource pressures and that our practices need to adapt to them. His own library has lost over half its staff since 2000. …

This interview with Kay Slater is the twelfth post in a new series of conversations between emerging professionals and archivists actively working with digital materials. Kailyn “Kay” Sla…

This interview by Kay Slater is the eleventh post in a new series of conversations between emerging professionals and archivists actively working with digital materials. Amanda Garfunkel …

This blog post is based on a presentation at the 2025 Midwest Archives Conference and a forthcoming paper at iPRES 2025. At the University of Kentucky Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center…

Ken Axford and Hope Dunbar, University at Buffalo This blog post is based on a presentation at the June 2025 New York Archives Conference. When faced with over 2,000 hours of historical radio recor…

Our collaborative approach to archival labor paired with technological innovation allowed us to build a custom audiovisual platform. The Audio Visual Materials of the Romare Bearden Papers serve as…

This interview by Susan Keane is the tenth post in a new series of conversations between emerging professionals and archivists actively working with digital materials. Meta Partenheimer is Digital …

This is the ninth post in a new series of conversations between emerging professionals and archivists actively working with digital materials. Grayson Murphy earned a Master Library Science and Mas…

A blog post written by Anna Perricci, Head of DPC Americas, and Amy Currie, Training and Grants Manager at the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Many of those taking on digital preservation can,…

By Nicole Scalessa This blog post is based on a session given at the Virtual DLF Forum in October 2024. The Vassar College Libraries are committed to supporting a framework of sustainable access to…

“In practicing digital preservation our inclination may be to build up extra layers to protect our precious digital assets, but sometimes all of the additional requirements and checkpoints, a…

By Lara Friedman-Shedlov and Carol Kussmann This blog post is based on a session given at Best Practices Exchange in Sacramento, CA, in June 2024. The Archives and Special Collections Department of…

Emily Higgs Kopin This post is adapted from a MARAC Fall 2024 Workshop, “Suddenly Digital: Acquiring Pragmatic Digital Archives Skills on the Job.” It is part of a bloggERS! series on Tearing Down …

Tara Maharjan and Danielle Marchetti The New Jersey State Archives (NJSA) serves as the State’s official repository for public records of enduring historical value. The archive is responsible…

“When it comes to life-writing, the real, honest, diaristic, warts-and-all kind, the only thing I have to show for myself– before St. Peter and whomever else– is my Yahoo! Email account, opened cir…

Carolyn Friedrich Managing a grant project to digitize an at-risk media format can be a challenge, but one well-worth undertaking to preserve and make accessible the voices of migrants and immigran…

By Kari May, Excellence Awards Working Group, Co-Chair The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) is an organization with a diverse international membership sharing a commitment to digital st…

By Lindsey Memory and Jamie E. Wiser This blog post is based on a session given at Best Practices Exchange in Sacramento, CA, in June 2024. In 2022, a number of departments at the Brigham Young Univer...

By Brenna Edwards and Hyeeyoung Kim This blog post is based on a workshop hosted at Best Practices Exchange in Sacramento, CA in June 2024. Documentation is something that overwhelms us all. It is a n...

By Keith Pendergrass This is a follow-up blog post to a 2024 BitCurator Forum lightning talk, announcing the public release of a Windows batch script that enables a mediated remote delivery workflow. ...

By Kari May and Matt McEniry For almost a dozen years the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) has been home to the Excellence Awards. From simple beginnings these awards have evolved in respo...

bloggERS!, the blog of the Electronic Records Section of the Society of American Archivists, fosters communication and collaboration within the ERS and across the wider archival community. We've put t...

Job Title Community Archivist, The Graterford Archive Job Description Summary The Community Archivist for the Graterford Archive is a full-time (37.5 hours per week), exempt, benefits-eligible Communi...