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Developing Your Personal Archive

Developing Your Personal Archive

2026-04-15T14:00:00 2026-04-15T15:00:00 Developing Your Personal Archive

Personal archiving involves capturing and protecting your “living history” to ensure that your experiences remain available for the duration life – and for the benefit of future generations. Whether your history is contains in overflowing physical boxes or a sprawling digital footprint, archival principles provide a roadmap to transform these materials from a stuff to be filed pile into your organized legacy.

This webinar will teach you how to get started putting together your personal archive, allowing you to manage your memories methodically.

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

  • Determine which items have enduring informational, evidentiary, or intrinsic significance to their personal narrative
  • Organize their collection
  • Identify appropriate preservation guidelines for non-digital media
  • Begin to outline a digital storage strategy, including social media

Instructor: Mitchell Friedman, EdD, APR develops people. Known as an enthusiastic, energetic, and insightful educator and consultant, he relishes opportunities to help others to develop their skills and abilities on the path to achieving their full potential. Dr. Friedman teaches leadership, management communication, organizational behavior, and public relations at universities located throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Dr. Friedman also helps a range of organizations to develop the communications and leadership skills of their employees.  

This project is made possible by grant funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) administered by the State of Michigan through the Library of Michigan.

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Event Date

Start: April 15, 2026 2:00 PM

End: April 15, 2026 3:00 PM

Personal archiving involves capturing and protecting your “living history” to ensure that your experiences remain available for the duration life – and for the benefit of future generations. Whether your history is contains in overflowing physical boxes or a sprawling digital footprint, archival principles provide a roadmap to transform these materials from a stuff to be filed pile into your organized legacy.

This webinar will teach you how to get started putting together your personal archive, allowing you to manage your memories methodically.

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

  • Determine which items have enduring informational, evidentiary, or intrinsic significance to their personal narrative
  • Organize their collection
  • Identify appropriate preservation guidelines for non-digital media
  • Begin to outline a digital storage strategy, including social media

Instructor: Mitchell Friedman, EdD, APR develops people. Known as an enthusiastic, energetic, and insightful educator and consultant, he relishes opportunities to help others to develop their skills and abilities on the path to achieving their full potential. Dr. Friedman teaches leadership, management communication, organizational behavior, and public relations at universities located throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Dr. Friedman also helps a range of organizations to develop the communications and leadership skills of their employees.  

This project is made possible by grant funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) administered by the State of Michigan through the Library of Michigan.

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