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C203: Digital Library Services & Preservation

Explore digital resources and engagement strategies offered by the Metro Library, including news aggregation, community curation, and digital data alchemy. Create your own online newspaper and discover themes like local history advocacy, new technology tools, calendaring, and storytelling. Take a journey through Los Angeles transportation history with interactive timelines and collaborative projects. Connect with us through our website, blog, social media channels, and more.

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C203: Digital Library Services & Preservation

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  1. C203: Digital Library Services & Preservation Internet Librarian 2015 Kenn Bicknell Digital Resources Librarian Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

  2. Challenge-Based Opportunties at The Metro Library

  3. Engagement Strategies • NEWS AGGREGATION & DISSEMINATION • COMMUNITY CURATION • DIGITAL DATA ALCHEMY

  4. Online Newspaper: Library as Aggregated Information Channel

  5. Creating a Newspaper including your own digital content

  6. Community Curation: Themes • Local history advocacy • New(ish) technology tools • Beyond “traditional” social media • Calendaring • Storytelling comes alive • Exploiting embedded resources • Creative collaboration

  7. Local History Advocacy

  8. New(ish) Technology Tools

  9. Interactive Timelines

  10. Interactive Timelines

  11. Interactive Timelines

  12. Beyond “traditional” social media

  13. Calendaring

  14. Online calendar

  15. Sample Calendar Entries

  16. Local History Goes Viral

  17. Storytelling Comes Alive

  18. L.A.’s First “Motormanettes”

  19. 1984 Summer Olympics “Tour”

  20. Exploiting Embedded Resources

  21. Goodell Monorail Rendering

  22. Taking Your Users Places & Taking Your Library Places

  23. Creative Collaboration

  24. A Cautionary Tale…

  25. Los Angeles Historic Traffic Plans

  26. Getty Museum: Overdrive

  27. National Building MuseumWashington, D.C.

  28. Resources • Our Website: metro.net/library • Our Primary Resources Blog (with “This Date in Los Angeles Transportation History”): metroprimaryresources.info • Daily Transportation Headlines: headlines.metroprimaryresources.info • L.A. as Subject: laassubject.org • Tiki-Toki timeline of Los Angeles transportation history: http://bit.ly/1bph9gz • PeoplePlotr family tree of Los Angeles transportation: http://bit.ly/1G9hFec • Our Flickr photo collection: https://www.flickr.com/photos/metrolibraryarchive/sets • Our YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/metrolibrarian • Our Tumblr page: lacmtalibrary.tumblr.com/ • Our Historypin site: https://www.historypin.org/channels/view/9987/#!photos/list/ • Our Twitter: @MetroLibrary • Anything else, just ask me! bicknellk@metro.net

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