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Persaonl Digital Archving Day

Guidance and resources for information professionals on how to organize and host your own Personal Digital Archiving Day

We've developed a Kit of resources to help you host your own Personal Digital Archiving Day events and to share knowledge on how best to care for personal digital information. We've organized the planning process into two phases.

Here you'll find a list of personal digital archiving resources for your event. Based on the focus of your program, you may choose to use all of them or only some of them.

Download a Personal Digital Archiving Day Kit reference copy (PDF, 3.3 MB). This document is a collection of the resources on this website to serve as a written guide to help you in your program planning efforts.

Why do this?

Do your partrons ask you for information about how to save their digital photos, documents or social media accounts? Are you looking to provie an innovative public program for your community?

By hosting a Personal Digital Archiving Day you are creating a great outreach opportunity for your library or organization. These valuable resources on personal digital archiving are a perfect introduction for informing your users and the general public on important tips and strategies for preserving their digital files, photos, videos, emails and social media accounts. Helping us spread the word about personal digital archiving you are raising awareness to these every changing formats, technologies and techniques.

Have you held a Personal Digital Archiving Day event?

We would love to know if you've held an event -- using our resources or others. Please share with us your experiences: [email protected].