Bits and Pieces

The click of death and more fun with Zip disks!

A brief photo tour of the Digital Preservation Unit's Pop-Up Digital Archiving event for World Digital Preservation Day 2018.

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.

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

Major upgrades to our lab space!