Journal Article: “Citizen Web Archivists: Applying Web Archiving as a Pedagogical Tool”

The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship. Note: The full text of this article is behind the T&F paywall.

Title

Citizen Web Archivists: Applying Web Archiving as a Pedagogical Tool

Authors

Kayla Harris
University of Dayton

Christina A. Beis
University of Dayton

Stephanie Shreffler
University of Dayton

Source

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship
Volume 33, 2021 – Issue 4
DOI: 10.1080/1941126X.2021.1988463

Abstract

Librarians and archivists preserve information on the Internet through web archiving, but undergraduate students may not have considered that information on the Internet is not always permanent. The asynchronous program, Citizen Web Archiving: Preserving Websites for the Common Good, taught students what web archiving is, why it’s important, the ethics of collecting information on the Internet, and how they could contribute to the historical record by archiving websites they deemed important via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.

The results suggest further opportunities for involving undergraduate students with web archiving initiatives at institutions, and using web archiving as a pedagogical tool.

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