Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 96
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Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-5381-2380-5 • Hardback • March 2020 • $32.00 • (£25.00)
978-1-5381-7113-4 • Paperback • July 2022 • $15.00 • (£11.99)
978-1-5381-2381-2 • eBook • March 2020 • $14.00 • (£10.99)
Dr. Vanessa Reyes is an Instructor in the School of Information at The University of South Florida. Prior to working as an Instructor, she was an adjunct faculty member at the Simmons College School of Library & Information Science. She received her Ph.D. in 2016 from Simmons SLIS and holds an M.S. in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University. Reyes’ work in public libraries, and special collections and archives inspired her to pursue research in preservation, digital libraries, and archives. Reyes works closely on research that analyzes personal digital collections, to understand how they are created, managed, and made accessible. She is also interested in how students and professors use personal digital information. Her current research contributes to the emerging field of personal information management (PIM), quantifying how individual users are organizing, managing, and preserving digital information.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: From Past to Present
Chapter 2: PIM Process
Chapter 3: Changing Our PIM Behaviors
Chapter 4: Loss of Our Personal Digital Collections
Chapter 5: DIY PIM Tools of the Future
Chapter 6: How Do We Save It All? Resources and Solutions
Chapter 7: Maintain Your Digital Life While Planning Your Digital Estate
Appendix (Recourses)
Most of us live digital lives of abundance, creating and keeping evermore stuff. Vanessa Reyes has written a wonderfully practical and prescriptive guide for inventorying your personal digital belongings, organizing them, and keeping them safe without becoming a hoarder or minimalist. She explores the reaches of the question: not just saving, but also loss, intentional deletion, identity management, and digital estate planning. Reyes has written a book for everyone who wants to gain control of their digital legacy.
— Cathy Marshall, Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department & Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, Texas A&M University
With the overload of digital information, strategies for managing our personal information are continuously evolving. Do we keep or throw away newly encountered information? If we keep it, how should we organize it? And when the information is needed, do we have a known way to retrieve it? In this book, Dr. Reyes provides an account of various practices for managing our personal information. She describes, in very accessible language, some of the tradeoffs of managing our personal information. She describes common tools, practices, and conventions used to manage our information. In my experience, the best strategy to manage your information is always tailored to the particular details of your personal information space. In this book, Reyes provides the basics on how to begin to create such a personalized information management strategy.
— Dr. Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Professor, Department of Software and Information Systems, College of Computing and Informatics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
It’s stunning how much research Vanessa Reyes has done on every aspect of managing personal digital information. In exhaustive detail, she explores methods of PDI organization and maintenance and offers strategies for ongoing PDI management. Geared toward general audiences and information professionals alike.
— Mike Ashenfelder, author of the chapter "The Library of Congress and Personal Digital Archiving," in the book Personal Archiving.