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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