1. preservation!

3. What information should we save? Who gets to decide?
A LOT of information! Especially with digital technologies – s, Twitter, instant messages. Have to pick and choose.
Paper (books, scrolls, loose leaf)
CDs
DVDs
Memory sticks/thumb drives
External hard drives

4. - Every public tweet since Twitter’s inception in March 2006 will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets every day

5. - There are many different types of preservation.
When we think of preservation, we usually think of old rare books
APL

6. And maybe film and audio, like we sometimes hear about restored prints of classic movies
TCM, AMC
LoC’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, VA

7. There is also the conservation of paintings and furniture

8. Sculpture and textiles
Flags – like the Star Spangled Banner at the National Museum of Am. History in D.C.

9. PRESERVATION Emergency preparedness Environmental Control & Monitoring
Conservation
Reformatting
Emergency preparedness
Environmental Control & Monitoring
Re-housing
PRESERVATION
Elizabeth Ney & O. Henry houses: historic buildings with historic objects inside
Natural disasters (Katrina, earthquakes – Haiti & Japan), wars (Iraq), regime changes (Egypt)
Reformatting: digitizing books for preservation purposes (not Google Books), migrating digital media to newer digital media

10. Big issues for preservation professionals: New media, which are all the electronic technologies
[Show floppies]

11. TRS-80 Tandy Corporation’s desktop microcomputer
Late ‘70s and early ‘80s
8” double density floppy disk that could hold 180 kilobytes
First 8” was in 1971 by IBM
First 5.25” was in 1976, outdated by the mid-1990s
First 3.5” was in 1986
How do we read these disks now? Frankenstein machine: multiple hardware devices that can read what’s on old media like floppies
When we preserved old electronic media, we are thinking about what aspects of this disk and what is on this disk are important enough to save – labels, files, order of files, who owned the disks, what version of Word they used

12. Key words
SIGNIFICANT PROPERTIES:  aspects of an object that must be preserved over time in order for the object to remain accessible and meaningful
METADATA:  data about data; or, descriptions about information

13. Wax cylinders Invented by Edison in 1880s Production ended in 1929
UCSB
Edward Shackleton

14. Your scenario
It is 2050.  You are the curators at an American history museum.  You receive a box of random stuff donated by the world-renowned usability expert Randolph Bias.   Your job is to decide what are the important characteristics (or significant properties) for your group's objects. 
Things to consider: 
How would you describe the object physically? 
Does it matter who created it and who owned it? 
How are the texts, images, and files arranged on the object or within it?