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A Conversation with Meta Partenheimer, Digital Projects Archivist at the Cambridge Historical Commission 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 …

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A Conversation with Grayson Murphy: Digital Preservation Librarian at University of Alabama at Birmingham 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…

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Call for Editors: bloggERS!, the blog of the Electronic Records Section (ERS) of the Society of American Archivists, fosters communication within the ERS and across the wider, especially digital, archival community. We’ve put together a fantastic editorial team of intrepid information professionals, and are seeking volunteers to join us as new Team Members. Access the brief application here. Apply by Friday, August 8th, 2025 to join the bloggERS Editorial Team! Team Member responsibilities: Term of service: August 2025 – July 2026 (renewable with one-year term commitment) Term limit: none Duties: Manage (recruit, edit, or publish) one post every six weeks All information professionals with an interest in electronic records and digital archives are welcome to apply, including MLIS students and early-career professionals. Questions? You can always reach us at ers.mailer.blog@gmail.com.

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Building Digital Preservation Skills Using the DPC’s Novice to Know-How (N2KH) Courses 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,…

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"How have you or your organization adjusted web capturing workflows? Tell us how for a new mini-series: Adjusting and Managing WARC Workflows. Examples may include: demonstrating updated workflows to preserve WARC files external to the Internet Archive, changes in procedure or policy as a direct response to the cybersecurity threats, spotlighting new solutions to WARC capturing and/or web crawling, diversifying your web archiving toolkit— we’re also open to your suggestions! Writing for bloggERS!: We encourage visual representations: Posts can include or largely consist of comics, flowcharts, a series of memes, etc! Written content should be roughly 600-800 words in length Write posts for a wide audience: anyone who stewards, studies, or has an interest in digital archives and electronic records, both within and beyond SAA Align with other editorial guidelines as outlined in the bloggERS! guidelines for writers. Submissions are due by April 30th, 2025. Please let us know if you are interested in contributing by sending an email to ers.mailer.blog@gmail.com!"

We are currently accepting submissions for a new mini-series: Adjusting and Managing WARC Workflows.

Submissions are due by April 30th, 2025. View the full #CFP below and check out our guidelines for writers: saaers.wordpress.com/about/guidel...

Safe and Informed Access: How Vassar College Libraries Dealt with Racist, Xenophobic, and Otherwise Harmful Material in the Digital Library 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…

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Reworking SIPs, AIPs, and DIPs: Saving Space While Reducing Risk in Digital Processing “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…

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Time Tracking Analysis for Digital Records Processing at the University of Minnesota Archives and Special Collections 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…

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How Do I Develop Digital Archivist Skills? 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 …

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A Backward Approach: The New Jersey State Archives’ Electronic Records Program 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…

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92NY Unterberg Poetry Center Email Archives: Lessons Learned and Guidance for Beginning Email Archiving for Cultural Organizations “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…

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Revealing Voices: Oral History Digitization and Access, A Challenge Worth Tackling 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…

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Submitting a Notable Nomination: Suggestions from the Excellence Award Working Group 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…

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Sweeping the Digital Corners: Assessing Digital Curation Lifecycle Completion Across All of an Academic Library’s Digital Collections 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...

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The Documentation Was Inside You All Along… 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...

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A low-tech solution for mediated delivery of born-digital materials 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. ...

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NDSA Excellence Awards: A history of growth and celebration 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...

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Join the bloggERS team! 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...

Oh hey! Come join the bloggERS team. We've got availability for a few new editorial members and would love to bring you aboard. saaers.wordpress.com/2024/07/15/j...

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New post up on the blog: St John Karp talks about Eltrovo, a proof-of-concept for a new approach to digital collections that analyzes sets of files and discovers the relationships between them using fuzzy matching algorithms. saaers.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/t...

We've got a new series: DEI in Practice! Read our first article in the series right here. saaers.wordpress.com/2024/02/29/b...

Here at bloggERS! we are eager to start out the new year by focusing on the hard work of our readers in the DEI field. Hit us up with plans and projects!
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Community Archivist, The Graterford Archive 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...

Community Archivist, The Graterford Archive, 3 years with $75k salary and a project focusing on the experiences of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men:

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Looks awesome, hosted at Haverford where special collections & archives staff are wonderful

The one time I need to send out an email Connect is down....anyway: join the Electronic Records Section for their event "DAMS, DPS, and System Procurement: Where to Begin" on Tuesday, February 6th at 11am Eastern/8am Pacific! @bloggers.bsky.social
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Up on the blog: New Year, New Resources! saaers.wordpress.com/2024/01/25/n...