Jeanne started her blog about archives and technology in July of 2006. She joined the World Bank Group’s Archives of Development as an Electronic Records Archivist in July of 2011.

Partners for Preservation
Edited by Jeanne Kramer-Smyth

The only certainty about technology is that it will change. The speed of that change, and the ever-increasing array of digital formats, tools and platforms, will present stark challenges to the long-term term preservation of digital records. Archivists frequently face shortfalls in the technical expertise, subject matter knowledge, time and resources needed to solve these challenges.

In this book, international contributors from diverse professions discuss their experience with and solutions to digital problems that share commonalities with those facing digital preservationists. Partners for Preservation advocates for archivists to recruit partners and learn lessons from other technical fields in order to work more effectively within the digital landscape.

Who could be partners to archivists working in digital preservation? This book will feature essays by eloquent representatives of various non-archives professions discussing their challenges with and victories over digital problems that share common issues with those facing digital preservationists.