More than ever, we are creating electronic traces of our lives and electronic records in our work. Whether you transfer your department's records to University Archives or you are donating personal papers to the Special Collections, we want your digital material! We collect transfers and donations regardless of format; we are interested in the records or papers you create, physical and digital alike.
Wondering whether you have any digital material that should be in your transfer or donation? You probably do: you might have emails, memos, electronic newsletters, databases, presentations, spreadsheets, photographs, or any number of other types of electronic material that we at the Special Collections Research Center don't want to miss out on.
Your electronic records might be on floppy disks, data compact disks, external hard drives, flash drives, or in a cloud account. We still want them!
If you transfer records to University Archives and you have questions about what the retention schedule specifies about your records, please contact Kim Sims, University Archivist.
If you have questions about your electronic records in general, how to give them to the Special Collections Research Center, or digital preservation, please contact Ann Cooper, Digital Archivist.