Laura Pearle Ellysa Stern Cahoy June 24, 2012
Your online (and offline footprint) The scholarly workflow and critical challenges Helping users manage personal collections Tips and tools for personal archiving
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Gone (or almost)… Institutional Memory…
What tools do you currently use? Where does your collection reside? What is your information workflow like?
Ellysa Stern Cahoy & Scott P. McDonald. Personal Scholarly Workflow.
Marshall’s user challenges Accumulation Distribution Curation Long-term access Marshall, C., Bly, S., Brun-Cottan, F., (2007). The Long Term Fate of Our Digital Belongings : Toward a Service Model for Personal Archives. Arxiv preprint arXiv: Retrieved from
Personal Archiving Outreach and Instruction Saving (Scanning) Your Digital Memories workshops Personal Archiving Day For more info, see:
Mellon Personal Scholarly Archiving Grant Ethnographic study of Penn State faculty in sciences, education, humanities Identifying critical literacies surrounding personal scholarly library management Highlighting the role of liaison librarians in helping users build, manage, and mine their personal collections
What are the critical challenges for your users? How can you best help your users manage their personal information collections?
3 copies of every important file— more copies are better Save at least two copies on different types of storage media Save one copy in a different location from where you are
What will remain of your work in 50 / 100 / 200 years? What should remain? How can we preserve the important stuff?
Facebook: Twitter: WordPress: Blogger: Settings - Other - Blog Tools - Export blog Delicious: Settings – Export/Back-up Diigo:
Think Up - (allows you to curate all your social media activity) IFTTT - (aggregates writing/ blogging into one site)
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