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What's Old is What's New
Library 2.0 for YouNELA Annual Conference – 2008
Elizabeth Thomsenhttp://www.noblenet.org/ethomsen/
The Old Days We read about things in books, but seldom had access
to the source material
Primary sources were curated, most of us just saw carefully selected images, movie clips, quotations from letters, etc.
Someone else decided what was important.
Spinning Room Boys, Salem, Massachusetts Lewis Wickes Hine, National Archives
Lewis Hine ProjectJoe Manning’s search for the stories and descendants of child laborers photographed by Hine
Library of Congress on Flickr
Movies
For the Living 1940’s movie about New York housing projects
Living Room Candidate
TV campaign commercials back to 1952
BBC Memory Share Oral history project on YouTube
The Future of History
• There will be more of it
• More complex written record: e-mail, blogging, wikis, social networking, Twitter, IM, text messages, etc.
• What happens when we die?
• Digital Dark Ages?
Geography is History
Visual WakefieldLucius Beebe Memorial Library
People are Interested…But not as passive consumers
• Comments, conversation and stories
• Contributions and crowdsourcing
• Creativity through remixing and mash-ups
• The end of “look but don’t touch”
Make it easy for people to find and share
• Tags, names, numbers, addresses, geocoding• Bookmarkable links• Code for embedding images• Badges and other tools• Multiple RSS feeds • Widgets, gadgets, plugins, apps• Copyright
Encourage Participation
• Encourage users to share their own photographs, home movies, memories, and more…even though it means giving up some control
• Encourage people to use your material and create new tools…even though it means giving up some control