Outdoor Community

Archiving

For outdoor communities, archives form an enduring record of the individual and collective memory of their members. Fond memories and knowledge hard won can easily fade if they aren’t kept current, or recorded and stored carefully.

Cheap Websites, Email and storage for clubs

Cheap Websites, Email and storage for clubs

This article was originally published in the March 2022 issue of Backcountry. Technology changes so rapidly that readers should take the article as general guidance and seek help from FMC if they have any specific questions. The array of digital platforms for communication and collaboration is overwhelming, even for digital natives, but a handful are dominant [...]

Why archive?

Why archive?

For outdoor communities, archives form an enduring record of the individual and collective memory of their members. Fond memories and knowledge hard won can easily fade if they aren’t kept current, or recorded and stored carefully.

The Archiving Plan

The Archiving Plan

To begin or revise a formal archiving process for a club, it helps to create an archiving plan, and seek support from your club executive. Not only will the plan help you keep on track of your progress, but will be invaluable for future archivists (and researchers) after you’re no longer the archivist.

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