I'm asking for help from literary archivists, or archivists who have and look after literary papers within their archive or who look after personal papers of individuals.
I'm a postgraduate at Dundee University studying Archiving and Records Management and for my dissertation I'm looking at the attitudes of archivists and authors to social media and how they can collaborate to ensure an author's social media content is preserved in perpetuity along with their print and/or digital archives.
As a writer myself I'm very interested in the digital legacy of the life and work of an author which may find its way into a specialist or institutional archive either by bequest, donation or purchase. It is the cultural norm today for published and aspiring authors to use an ever bewildering array of digital technology to write and draft new pieces of work, to build their profile and to communicate with friends, peers and business associates. Social media is one example of technology that is so ingrained in the way of life it is more instinctive, and efficient, to log in to Facebook or Twitter or a blog site and post information that can be instantly accessed by the public, than it is to write a letter.
As part of my research I'm asking for archivists to participate in a brief, anonymous, survey I've put together on social media and thoughts on its long term preservation.
I'd be very grateful if you could click on the link below and complete the survey.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/socialmediasurveyforarchivists
Kind regards
Kirsty Lee
Postgraduate, MLitt Archives and Records Management
Archive Assistant, University of St Andrews
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