Book information: "Scholars and scrapbookers alike need your help with saving their most important digital content.  But how do you translate your professional knowledge as a librarian or archivist into practical skills that novices can apply to their own projects? The Complete Guide to Personal Archiving will show you the way, helping you break down archival concepts and best practices into teachable solutions for your patrons’ projects. Whether it’s a researcher needing to cull their most important email correspondence, or an empty-nester transferring home movies and photographs to more easily shared and mixed digital formats, this book will show you how to offer assistance, providing explanations of common terms in plain language; quick, non-technical solutions . . . guidance on how to archive Facebook posts and other social media . . . and additional resources for digging deep into personal digital archiving."

UC Berkeley’s Library and the central Research InformationTechnologies unit have collaborated to develop a research datamanagement program that leverages each organization's expertiseand resources to create a unified service. The service offers a rangeof workshops, consultation, and an online resource. Because of thiscollaboration, service areas that are often fully embedded in IT,like backup and secure storage, as well as services in the Librarydomain, like resource discovery and instruction, are integrated intoa single research data management program. This case studydiscusses the establishment of the program, the obstacles inimplementing it, and outcomes of the collaborative model.