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WeChat and Me 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…

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A Conversation with Carol Kussmann: Digital Preservation Analyst at the University of Minnesota Libraries 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…

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Do you know what your ETDs are? 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…

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Keep it Simple: A Conversation with Greg Wiedeman 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. …

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A Conversation with Kay Slater: Creative Technology Specialist at the Oak Park Public Library 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…

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A Conversation with Amanda Garfunkel, 25-26 Chair of SAA’s Electronic Records Section 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 …

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Looking for Trouble: Born-Digital Reappraisal 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…

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From Transcripts to Descriptions: Using Consumer AI Tools for Audio Collection Metadata 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…

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From Analog to Digital: Integrating Audiovisual Collections into the WPI Digital Archives 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…

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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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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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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...

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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...