Skills
When starting a new archival project, it helps to learn few basic archival skills. Learning how to scan, record, and organize your materials and stories can take you a long way.
Conducting Oral History Interviews
Basics of Preserving Digital Files
3 simple rules for preserving digital files.
Safeguarding and Sharing Your Home Archive
Here are some tips to maintaining a vibrant and safe home archive.
Creating a Digital File Naming System
When organizing your digital files, it is important to be consistent in what you name them and the information you collect and save about them. This information is called metadata. Use this tool to create your own metadata system for your digital items.
Working with Digital Materials
This guide will help you decide how to prioritize your digital files for preservation, how to safeguard and store your files, and how to digitize analog or paper items.
Oral History Question Cards
These question cards feature suggested topics and prompts to guide you through a simple oral history interview. We created them for our Archivist in a Backpack kits.
Digital Archives: Management, Access, Preservation
Archivist in a Backpack Supplies List
Build your own Archivist in a Backpack kit! This list includes links to all of the items we purchased, as well as suggestions for the number of items to include per kit.
An Introduction to Oral History and Genealogy Projects
Oral history interviews and genealogy projects are a wonderful way to document and connect about family stories and cultural history.