There's a very nice book coming out from Information Today, edited by Donald Hawkins, which pulls together many of the key themes that have emerged from the last few Personal Digital Archiving conferences and offers a broad look at developments in this area. We have covered a number of these themes at CNI member meetings over the past few years. The book includes chapters from several people well known to the CNI community; I'm delighted to have been able to contibute a short chapter that focuses on the future research agendas for personal digital archiving .

The book is called Personal Archiving: Preserving our Digital Heritage. The publisher's page for the book (including a link to order copies, which are on sale during the pre-order period) is at

Personal Archiving – Information Today Books and Plexus Publishing

Preserving Our Digital Heritage Edited by Donald T. Hawkins Foreword by Brewster Kahle This multi-authored work offers one of the first and most robust explorations of the emerging field of persona…

The table of contents and the introductory chapter by Jeff Ubois of the MacArthur Foundation are at

My (preprint version) chapter can be found at

“The Future of Personal Digital Archiving: Defining the Research Agendas”

Author: Clifford A. Lynch View Online

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI