Heather VanMouwerik is a PhD candidate in Russian History at the University of California, Riverside and the Congressman George Brown Graduate Intern for the Special Collections at Rivera Library.

If this were the 20th century, we’d be shoving our physical documents into an iron safe and spinning the combination lock. But, as we’re in the 21st century — the information age, where are we ...

You don’t have to. Thanks to full-bodied e-mail programs, online backup, software add-ons, and search tools like Google Desktop that work equally well for small company computer networks or individual ...