Digital Lives Conference, British Library

All UK local archives hold collections of ‘personal papers’ – diaries, correspondence, working papers and notes scribbled by dignitaries and officials, local people ‘made good’, and even the average person-in-the-street can provide a rich seam of historical content for social history.  For many local authority archive services, personal digital archives – perhaps a few floppy disks [...]

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National Library of Australia – Digital Manuscripts

The position of the manuscripts collection within NLA is in many ways analogous to the current position vis-a-vis digital arcives in UK local archive services:
The department has a collecting remit with private donors and organisations of national significance to Australia. This includes literary figures, people involved in the performing arts and some politicians.
In the [...]

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