Mike Ashenfelder has written over 180 articles and reports about digital preservation for the Library of Congress and the American Library Association. He is the author of “The Library of Congress and Personal Digital Archiving,” from Personal Archiving: Preserving Our Digital Heritage. Information Today, Inc. (October 28, 2013).

Mike has two degrees in music, and he has written music-related articles for newspapers and scholarly journals.

He worked in both Washington DC and Silicon Valley, and he is adept at translating academese, bureaucratese, and engineer-speak into plain English. Mike is also an amateur mushroom hunter. He lives in Northern California with his family.