Resources and Guides
- The Complete Guide to Personal Digital Archiving by
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ISBN: 9780838916056Date: 2017-11-21The Complete Guide to Personal Archiving will help you translate your professional knowledge as a librarian or archivist into practical skills that novices can apply to their own projects, breaking down archival concepts and best practices into teachable solutions for your patrons' projects. - The Mass Production of Memory: Travel and Personal Archiving in the Age of the Kodak by
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ISBN: 9781625345325Date: 2020-11-27In this groundbreaking history, Tammy S. Gordon tells the story of the camera's emerging centrality in leisure travel across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its role in "the mass production of memory," a process in which users crafted a visual archive attesting to their experiences, values, and circumstances, setting the stage for the customizable visual culture of the digital age. - Personal Archiving: Preserving Our Digital Heritage byISBN: 9781573874809Date: 2013-10-14This multi-authored work offers one of the first and most robust explorations of the emerging field of person digital archiving.
- Building Companionship Between Community and Personal Archiving: Strengthening Personal Digital Archiving Support in Community-Based Mobile Digitization Projects
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The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the value in considering connections and differences between community and personal archiving needs in current and future projects, and calls for further coordination of efforts and collaboration to build better collaboration between community and personal archiving. - Personal Archiving (LoC)The Library of Congress guide to personal archiving and introductory material to scanning and archive tips.
Local LA Resources
- DIY Memory Lab (LAPL Octavia Lab)The DIY Memory Lab is a space for free do-it-yourself digitization of photos, video, sound recordings, and other formats, located in the Octavia Lab on LL2 of the Los Angeles Central Library.
- DVD Your MemoriesLA-based vendor that provides digitization and transfer services for a fee.
- Echo Park Film Center (EPFC)Provides all-ages community film/video workshops, screenings, resources and residencies in Los Angeles.
- Find an Archive (LA as Subject)L.A. as Subject is a research alliance dedicated to preserving and improving access to the archival material of Los Angeles history