The document discusses the transition from traditional archival practices to a post-digital approach, highlighting the necessity of integrating both analog and digital technologies in a rapidly evolving media landscape. It addresses the challenges archivists face as the age of print wanes, with lingering assumptions clashing against contemporary digital practices. Contributors emphasize the importance of evaluating technologies based on merit rather than nostalgia or novelty.

1. Are we losing our
(paper) minds?
Processing analog collections in the digital world
Lara Michels
NCTPG Annual Program
23 May 2014
post-digital

3. Digital Solutionism
Digital Age
Pipes
and
Plumbing

4. Archivists in the Digital Age
Traditional Archival Paradigm
● the sanctity of evidence;
● respect des fonds,
provenance, and original
order;
● the life cycle of records;
● the organic nature of
records; and
● hierarchy in records and
their descriptions.

5. Post-Digital Age
● In the post-digital age, the digital is
commonplace and accepted, rather than
something exciting and new. --Adam
Tinworth
● The post-digital condition is a post-
apocalyptic one: the state of affairs after
the initial upheaval caused by the
computerisation and global digital networking
of communication, technical infrastructures,
markets and geopolitics.--Florian Cramer

6. We’re finally moving past the twin elephants
in the room of technological conversation.
Infatuation with everything shiny and digital,
and that nostalgic, ‘Lead Pencil Club’ clinging
to the past. We’re finally getting to the point
where we can decide which are the
appropriate technologies to use based simply
on their actual merits. And, we’re starting to
understand how to combine analog and
digital in effective ways. -- Russell Davies

8. Terry Cook
long-established, customary, time-honored,
established, classic, accustomed, standard, regular,
normal, conventional, usual, orthodox, habitual, set,
fixed, routine, ritual, old, age-old, ancestral
Paper Mind

10. Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections and the Princeton Finding Aids Project

11. In the new millenium, the media landscape is
changing far faster than our institutions, so we
now find ourselves in situations where print-
born assumptions linger and intermingle with
practices such as social media networking,
tweeting, hacking, and so on…
-- N. Katherine Hayles
The Age of Print is passing, and the
assumptions, presuppositions, and practices
associated with it are now becoming visible as
media-specific practices rather than the largely
invisible status quo. --N. Katherine Hayles
Digital Humanities

12. 2013 2012

13. Media Archaeology and Media History
Friedrich Kittler Lisa Gitelman Cornelia Vismann

14. More Media Archaeology
Erkki Huhtamo Wolfgang ErnstMichael Z. Newman

15. Lara Michels
Manuscripts Processing Archivist
Bancroft Library
lmichels@library.berkeley.edu