On July 15, I led a workshop for UCLA Library staff and some guests from the Southern UCs. We covered a lot of topics that bear on preserving digital collections: specifics of preservation theory as it plays out in digital libraries, creating digital objects, strategies for future access and risk-assessment of contemporary digital objects, metadata, and digital repositories. Obviously this was a broad but shallow overview. The target audience was non-specialists who nonetheless do a lot of work with digital libraries and need to be aware of the issues that are in play.

In the middle of June I began an internship with the preservation department at UCLA. The internship started the way all jobs do - with a lot of paper work. I began my morning with a trip to library HR to fill out 1-9s and W-2s and learn all about the intricacies of working for a UCLA library. Finally, a couple of hours later, I got to meet Jake Nadal, the Preservation Officer, in person.