Highlights from my presentation to the Orange County Heritage Coordinating Council about Using the Social Web for Special Collections.
Teaching local history through mobile technologies
February 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Innovative efforts by a library and a professor to teach local history through mobile location-based technologies.
Exemplary academic social media: USC Libraries’ Live Tweeting
October 19, 2009 By 2 Comments
It appears I have already blown the “weekly” part of my new series highlighting excellent examples of academic social media application by failing to post last week. So, perhaps I can make it up by book-ending the work week with two examples this week. USC Libraries’ Live Twitter Coverage of the L.A. Archives Bazaar The [...]
Teaching the techie side of digital history
October 7, 2009 By 2 Comments
I guest lectured yesterday afternoon in an Introduction to Public History class about the technical, or systems, side of working with digital history. Shortly after starting the new job, I started chatting informally with with one of my faculty colleagues, Dr. Ray Rast — Assistant Professor of History at Cal State Fullerton and an Associate [...]
NARA and Ancestry digitization partnership
May 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The U.S. National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) announced yesterday a 5-year partnership with The Generations Network (TGN), parent company of Ancestry.com, to digitize selected NARA records. TGN will provide the staff, hardware, and software, and will make the digitized records available online to Ancestry subscribers. Access to those records will be available for free, [...]
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