Description: Do you still work with 3.5-inch diskettes? How about 5.25-inch floppy disks and Zip disks? I do. As an electronic records archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I spend most of my time working with digital information to help ensure it will be accessible in 5, 25, or even 100 years from now. Born-digital materials arrive at the archives in a variety of ways (CDs,
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_6847,size=300,left]The records of the Office of the Secretary are arguably the most important group of records in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, with the highest research value in the Archives. Researchers can conduct focused searches on records from the Office of the Secretary in the Archives' Collection Search. From the beginning of the