Dear all
At the moment I'm working on electronic records in a personal
(literary) context. Very little has been published specifically
on the problems facing archivists working on archives comprising
floppy disks and hard drives.
Is this a common problem? Have many of you come across archives
of this kind? If so how have you approached the problem of
obsolescence and access? Have you given up and thrown them away
or have you kept them in the hope that the future might hold the
key to un-lock those Amstrad and 5" disks? If you have gained
access to them have you upgraded the data or printed out the
files? Does your repository have any policy aimed specifically
at the field of personal electronic archives, which pose quite
different problems to electronic archives in an institutional
context?
In the same vain I wonder if you would like to share with me how
you arrange your own personal electronic records? Do you have
books and articles on disks that are obsolete? Do you
keep e-mails? If so, how? Do you print them and treat them as
conventional letters or keep them along with the e-mail software
appraising and deleting from time to time?
Any thoughts on the matter (on or off list) would be
gratefuly accepted!
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R Arwel Jones
Archifydd Cynorthwyol
Llyfrgell Genedlaehtol Cymru
Aberystwyth
01970 632873
Fy marn i yw'r uchod, nid yw'n adlewyrchu barn y Llyfrgell Genedlaethol.
R Arwel Jones
Assistant Archivist
National Library of Wales
Aberystwyth
01970 632 873
The above is my opinion, it does not reflect that of the National Library
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