Last week I shared what I learned about search at the Internet Librarian Conference in Monterey.  This week I’m sharing some tidbits from another memorable session I attended.

From Ken Bicknell’s presentation on Digitization & Social Media

This was a really interesting presentation on how Ken Bicknell’s library is in the process of digitizing historical archives related to the history of transportation in Los Angeles.  Seriously, I wanted to become an archivist after his presentation!

• “Access to everything can be just as useless as having access to nothing.”  - Very smart commentary on the need to help library users interpret the information they receive.
• We need our resources to be “find-able.”  Access means nothing if users cannot find it.

Some resources he shared:

• Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li
• Historypin- Send this one to your history teachers
• Tiki Toki- Create interactive timelines
• People Plotr- Web-based plots & family trees
• 23 Things for Archivists (very similar to 23 Things for School Librarians)