carissa
@carissapffffft.bsky.social
📚 Special collections librarian/archivist in Asheville, NC
🌧️ Documenting the impact of Helene in WNC: helenehistory.omeka.net
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🐦 I miss old #library Twitter
🌧️ Documenting the impact of Helene in WNC: helenehistory.omeka.net
📝 Views are my own
🐦 I miss old #library Twitter
This evening my library did a drop-in “make your own tea blend” program (proving info, herbs, and supplies for making up to 10 custom tea bags to take home) & it seemed popular!
February 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This evening my library did a drop-in “make your own tea blend” program (proving info, herbs, and supplies for making up to 10 custom tea bags to take home) & it seemed popular!
(PS—web archivists/digital archivists please do chime in! I am just a public librarian/archivist who does web archiving on an occasional basis & not an expert by any means!!!)
February 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
(PS—web archivists/digital archivists please do chime in! I am just a public librarian/archivist who does web archiving on an occasional basis & not an expert by any means!!!)
Ok I think that’s it! There is a mnemonic for digital archives—LOCKSS—Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe. Archivists have always relied on people to save things, and that's even more important in the digital era! (8/8)
February 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Ok I think that’s it! There is a mnemonic for digital archives—LOCKSS—Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe. Archivists have always relied on people to save things, and that's even more important in the digital era! (8/8)
Directly saving PDFs and datasets is also useful. Do consider whether/how you intend to back these up (external hard drive, flash drive, cloud storage) and whether/how you want to provide access to those, such as by uploading to your website, archive.org (free with an account), Google Drive. (7/?)
February 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Directly saving PDFs and datasets is also useful. Do consider whether/how you intend to back these up (external hard drive, flash drive, cloud storage) and whether/how you want to provide access to those, such as by uploading to your website, archive.org (free with an account), Google Drive. (7/?)
But you can also use tools like Conifer (formerly Webrecorder) to save WARCs of entire sites that you can easily download to your computer. The catch is that you need to make sure to trigger every interaction—click every link, listen to the entirety of audio files, etc. (6/?)
February 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
But you can also use tools like Conifer (formerly Webrecorder) to save WARCs of entire sites that you can easily download to your computer. The catch is that you need to make sure to trigger every interaction—click every link, listen to the entirety of audio files, etc. (6/?)
The Internet Archive itself has been subject to legal and DDOS attacks in the past year, so it's also a risk to rely on it solely. However, it's hard to download WARCs (web archive files) from the Wayback Machine for offline or backup storage. (5/?)
February 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The Internet Archive itself has been subject to legal and DDOS attacks in the past year, so it's also a risk to rely on it solely. However, it's hard to download WARCs (web archive files) from the Wayback Machine for offline or backup storage. (5/?)
You are probably familiar with the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at archive.org. A quick and easy way to save single web pages that may be at risk is to use the "Save Page Now" button. This will save that single, time-stamped page in the Wayback Machine. (4/?)
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
You are probably familiar with the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at archive.org. A quick and easy way to save single web pages that may be at risk is to use the "Save Page Now" button. This will save that single, time-stamped page in the Wayback Machine. (4/?)
If you're not sure how to help, check out the Contribute page at eotarchive.org. One big need is for help surfacing deep links, web apps, and databases that are hard to capture using web archiving tools. (3/?)
February 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
If you're not sure how to help, check out the Contribute page at eotarchive.org. One big need is for help surfacing deep links, web apps, and databases that are hard to capture using web archiving tools. (3/?)
The current loss of access to information that we are seeing is very concerning, but changes to websites are normal when an administration changes. Since 2008, the End of Term Web Archive (eotarchive.org) has been a project to collaboratively archive federal domains. (2/?)
https://eotarchive.org
February 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The current loss of access to information that we are seeing is very concerning, but changes to websites are normal when an administration changes. Since 2008, the End of Term Web Archive (eotarchive.org) has been a project to collaboratively archive federal domains. (2/?)