Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die: Preserving Your Digital Legacy

How do you want to be remembered? Who will tell your story? Digital files are more at risk of being lost than any other format -- and sooner than you’d think. Whether you are new to organizing your digital life or a seasoned Marie Kondo with your stuff, knowing where your content lives and how to access it in the far future is important. This session will help you identify and preserve your most important digital records, including your social media feeds (because social media is not an archive!) Your legacy, whether it is your time at Princeton and most importantly beyond, requires forethought so those that will come after you can understand your digital lifestyle and personal records or organization’s work without sifting through empty folders. You will be introduced to the resources and tools available to help you or your organization get started in creating your history and documenting your legacy. This session is designed to help anyone who creates records -- whether you’re a student, a student organization, or a faculty or staff member. If you have too many files on your desktop, a crowded Google Drive, or a phone full of photographs, this is the session for you.
**Please note that this session is virtual; you will receive a Zoom link a few days prior to the session**

What to expect:
Single workshop (one-off workshop –" 2 hours total)

Meet the facilitator:
Valencia L. Johnson is the Archivist for Student Life and engages with student organizations on managing and preserving their records, in analog and born-digital formats. As the creator of Amp Up Your Archives program, she works to create records management and archival initiatives to inspire students to view their records and materials as important documentation that is an equal to the administrative record of the university. Annalise Berdini is the Digital Archivist at Princeton University, where she manages Special Collections’ Digital Curation program. She develops policy on digital preservation, processing, and access and enacts those policies on born-digital Special Collections materials. She has previously worked at UC San Diego and on the PACSCL/CLIR Hidden Collections project. She received her BA in English Secondary Education from The College of New Jersey and her MSLIS with concentrations in Archives and Digital Libraries from Drexel University. Clayton McGahee is the Records Manager at Princeton University, which involves providing guidance to the university community on the management of university records. He most recently served as Records Analyst at Penn State University, and he previously held archival roles at Emory University, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and Virginia Tech.

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