Connect the clues!

Exploring personal digital archives

Event date May 1, 2015 10am - 11:30am

Imagine that it’s the year 2025 and you’ve recently begun preserving your family history. While sorting through photo albums and books, you’ve discovered a USB drive belonging to a distant relative. Now what?! Join Kari R. Smith, Digital Archivist and Jessica Venlet, Library Fellow for Digital Archives, MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections for this hands‐on workshop to explore the files on this intriguing USB drive and learn how archivists evaluate and manage personal archives of digital content!

Location: 14N-132

Speakers: Kari R. Smith, Digital Archivist and Jessica Venlet, Library Fellow for Digital Archives

This event is free and open to the public, and part of  MIT Libraries’ Preservation Week event seriesRegistration required.