Introduction This brief webinar will provide a lighthearted introduction to best practices for selecting, arranging, describing, preserving and using “born-digital” records, such as digital documents, emails, photographs, websites and social media records. The instructor will introduce the key literature and concepts, so that participants can establish a new digital archives program or strengthen an existing one. Themes • Digital preservation • Community infrastructure • Open-source software • Archival context • Team building Objectives After completing the webinar, participants will be able to: • describe the core challenges for preserving “born-digital” documents • discuss with colleagues their institution’s digital preservation needs • identify key digital preservation systems • understand the “six steps to success” arrangement and description model • apply one of the lessons learned to their institution’s needs. Speaker Christopher Prom is Acting Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation – Arts, Humanities and Related Fields. In addition, he is: • Associate Dean for Digital Strategies and Academic Affairs, University of Illinois Library • Fellow of the Society of American Archivists and previously served as its Publications Editor • Currently directing two grant projects: Email Archives: Building Capacity and Community and Email Archiving in PDF: From Initial Specification to Community of Practice • Advisory board member, COVID Tracking Project Archives (https://covidtracking.com/ ). • An archivist with 20+ years’ experience working with digital records and systems Target audience • Academic librarians, archivists and curators • Government records professionals • Library and information science students