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Subscribe to vholmes's postsJewel’s Museum Studies Placement blog 2
As I write this blog on 3 September 2024, I find myself in the final week of my placement. The experience of working in the Archives and Special Collections department at the University of Leicester over the past eight weeks has been incredibly rewarding for me personally. In this post, I would like to share […]
Jewel’s Museum Studies Placement 2024 blog 1
This is an introduction to the work that Yiqian Zhu (Jewel) started in July at the beginning of the Museum Studies course practical placement, with Archives and Special Collections. My name is Yiqian Zhu. I am an Art Museum and Gallery Studies student from the University of Leicester, and I am currently on an 8-week […]
World Digital Preservation Day 2023: making digital preservation greener
The theme for WPDP2023 (2 November) is Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort. This post is a write-up of an online talk to celebrate the day. It expands on the Library and Records Management’s wish to embed sustainable practices in their roles, explore efforts being made by the sector and examines how we can preserve files […]
Managing your own personal digital archive
In a second post related to World Digital Preservation Day, 3 November 2022, I thought I would share the tips that our University Records Manager, David Jenkins and I (Vicky Holmes, University Archivist) gave at some informal sessions run on 3 November about managing your own digital archive. We are all dealing with a deluge […]
World Digital Preservation Day 2022
I last wrote a blog about our digital preservation activity in 2018, nearly a year after I started at Leicester, and thought the forthcoming World Digital Preservation Day 2022 would be a good opportunity reflect back over the last few years and the progress we have made. Obviously, the pandemic changed our ways of working […]