Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-4-2022
Publication Source
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship
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.
ISBN/ISSN
Print ISSN: 1941-126X; Online ISSN: 1941-1278
Document Version
Postprint
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Volume
33
Issue
4
Peer Reviewed
yes
Keywords
Web archiving, citizen archivists, undergraduate students, asynchronous instruction, programming, Internet Archive, Wayback Machine, LibWizard, civic engagement
eCommons Citation
Kayla Harris (0000-0002-1672-3022), Christina A. Beis (0000-0003-4749-1292), and Stephanie Shreffler (0000-0002-2147-7495) (2022).
Citizen Web Archivists: Applying Web Archiving as a Pedagogical Tool. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship.
,
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/imri_faculty_publications/59
Included in
Archival Science Commons, Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons
Comments
The document available for download is the authors' accepted manuscript, provided in compliance with the publisher's policy on self-archiving. Permission documentation is on file.
To view the version of record, use the DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2021.1988463