Archivist, researcher and natural born recordkeeper that I am, it is perhaps surprising that I am a bit slack when it comes to personal digital recordkeeping.
I say a bit, because in some areas I’m quite good. I have a twelve year email archive that is still accessible and in regular use, and I migrated my [...]
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Personal digital recordkeeping: note to self
Postcards, history and the souvenir hunter
What constitutes a good memento of travel?
Kate Holden recently reflected on this in The Age (A2, 20 October 2007, p.3), noting that you can buy Vegemite and Tim Tams in London (so no point bearing these as gifts) and you can get most things in Australia, so what then is worth bringing home as a [...]
The right attitude to archives
I love Alexander McCall Smith’s stories; simple, thoughtful, entertaining and easy to read. He even demonstrates a fine understanding of the value of correspondence and stamps! But does he have the right attitude to archives?
In the most recent installment in his Sunday Philosophy Club series, The Careful Use of Compliments (Little, Brown, 2007), the value [...]
Motherhood, archiving and the text message
Personal recordkeeping in the digital age is an interesting prospect. Take the text message. If you’re a mobile phone user and send text messages, do you intentionally save any you create or receive?
No? Perhaps your messages are all banal, along the lines of arranging meetings, pick ups from the station or fish and chip dinners. [...]