Presentation by Laura Pearle and Ellysa Cahoy, ALA

1. Laura Pearle
Ellysa Stern Cahoy
June 24, 2012

2.  Your online (and offline footprint)
 The scholarly workflow and critical challenges
 Helping users manage personal collections
 Tips and tools for personal archiving

5. 1996-2002
2002-2005
2005 - 2009
2009-?

6. Gone (or almost)…
Institutional Memory…

7. http://www.yesandspace.com.au/?p=2067

8.  What tools do you currently use?
 Where does your collection reside?
 What is your information workflow
like?

10. Ellysa Stern Cahoy & Scott P. McDonald. Personal Scholarly Workflow.

11.  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:0704.3653. Retrieved from
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1032046

12.  Personal Archiving Outreach and Instruction
 Saving (Scanning) Your Digital Memories workshops
 Personal Archiving Day
 For more info, see:
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/

13.  Mellon Personal Scholarly Archiving Grant
2012-2013
 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

14. What are the critical challenges for your users?
How can you best help your users manage their personal
information collections?

16. 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

22. What will remain of your work in 50 / 100 / 200
years?
What should remain?
How can we preserve the important stuff?

23.  Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/download/
 Twitter: http://www.allmytweets.net/
 WordPress:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
 Blogger: Settings - Other - Blog Tools - Export
blog
 Delicious: Settings – Export/Back-up
 Diigo: http://www.diigo.com/tools/export

24.  Think Up - http://thinkupapp.com/ (allows you to
curate all your social media activity)
 IFTTT - http://ifttt.com/ (aggregates writing/ blogging
into one site)

25. Laura Pearle Ellysa Stern Cahoy
VennConsultants Penn State University Libraries
lpearle@gmail.com ellysa@gmail.com
lpearle.wordpress.com bit.ly/ellysa
@vennlibrarian