It's Monday, What are You Reading? Personal Archiving

It's Monday, What are You Reading?

Personal Archiving: Preserving Our Digital Heritage
Edited by Donald T. Hawkins


This post is the seventy-second entry for this meme suggested by Sheila@ One Persons Journey Through A World of Books. [Entries 22-25 in the series were posted at  the Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories]

This is a LibraryThing Early Reviewers book


Book Description from Amazon.com:

This multi-authored work offers one of the first and most robust explorations of the emerging field of personal digital archiving. Editor Donald T. Hawkins and his expert contributors cover a range of innovative projects and practical topics: archiving individual and family histories; new and nascent services and software products; social media and email applications,; legal issues including digital inheritance and privacy; evolving formats and media considerations; academic research projects; Library of Congress initiatives; the pioneering role of the Internet Archive; research at Microsoft; and case studies of digital archiving in practice.
The book's contributors are passionate about personal archiving, their enthusiasm matched only by their expertise in this must-read text for genealogists, historians, archivists, librarians, collectors, creators, and anyone with a mass of digital information they want to organize and preserve.

http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Archiving-Preserving-Digital-Heritage/dp/1573874809/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387502227&sr=1-1&keywords=personal+archiving+preserving+our+digital+heritage

Happy Reading!

Dr. Bill  ;-)