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As an intern in Digital Content and Collections (DCC), I have been working with various older digital collections and projects, to address any issues that have come up since their creation. Each of these collections is unique in content and format, with digitization, description, and access processes designed within the context of grants, stakeholder goals, user needs, and technical capacity. Most recently, I completed a project to ensure access to digitized materials from the Superiorland Library Cooperative (SLC) and through this project learned several lessons that are useful for me -- and anyone else working with older digitized materials -- to keep in mind for future projects with digital collections.

Part 3 of the Personal Digital Archiving series looks at storage options for backing up your digital data.

A quick review of Personal Digital Archiving tips.

Our Digital Preservation Lab now has a cool website with shared versions of our workflows to transfer material off current and obsolete media; information on new and vintage equipment used in the lab; and a selection of reports and research on born-digital preservation.

An examination of our new dark preservation repository with some Poe thrown in for fun!

Part two outlining our findings after discovering some moldy floppy disks.

In this post we go over our current computing workstations and peripherals.

My experience with Michigan Library Scholars Internship program was one of professional growth, acquiring knowledge, and refining critical thinking skills. From May until the end of July, I worked on creating and promoting my project: a library research guide for the international performing arts.

The first post on how we are dealing with moldy 5.25 floppy disks.

Major upgrades to our lab space!