Dodging the Memory HoleOctober 14, 2016

Technology and CommunityWhy we need partners, collaborators, and friends

National Digital Initiatives

Kate Zwaard

Abbey Potter

Mike Ashenfelder

Jaime Mears

When I speak of and refer to it as ‘the Great Library,’ I do so with sincerity and appreciation for everything that I learned within those walls.

-- Henriette Avram

I am not a librarian by training but a brainwashed computer systems analyst.

–Avram

Maximize the benefit of the digital collection

Incubate, encourage, and promote digital innovation

From Crawl to Call & Pull: Engaging with Communitiesand API driven Accessioning of Digital Folklife (iPres 2016)David Brunton, LC ♦ Trevor Owens, IMLS ♦ Abigail Potter, LC ♦ Nicole Saylor, LC ♦ Kate Zwaard, LC

Thank youKate Zwaard

kzwa@loc.gov

Henriette Avram. Photo by Reid Baker, https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9708/ala.htmlWoman at Main Reading Room card catalog in the Library of Congress. Photo by Jack Delano https://lccn.loc.gov/90712184Library of Congress, Jefferson Buildling, bookstacks area. Photo. https://www.loc.gov/item/91719273/William T. Sherman Papers: Certificate of thanks signed by Abraham Lincoln, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms009309.mss39800.0155Needlework display at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Photo by Jonas Dovydenas. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004.018/Walt Whitman Papers: Photograph of Whitman. Photo by Frank Pearsall, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms005001.mss77909.019How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Published by Tousey & Small. https://www.loc.gov/item/musdi.098/Walt Whitman Papers: Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, https://www.loc.gov/item/mss454430216/Nathan W. Daniels Diary: Diary; Vol. I, 1861 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms014083.mss84934.01Rosa Parks being fingerprinted Photo. https://lccn.loc.gov/2015649584Too Busy To Improve. Cartoon by Alan O’Rourke https://www.flickr.com/photos/toddle_email_newsletters/15412982829Great Mustaches of the LOC. https://www.flickr.com/commons/tags/greatmustachesoftheloc/Rosa Parks Papers: Accounts of her arrest, https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss85943.001810 Rosa Parks Papers: Recipe for featherlite pancakes, https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss85943.002606/Ekstasis, No. 2. Library of Congress, Music Division. https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200154181Lowering the Activation Energy of a Reaction by a Catalyst http://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/principles-of-general-chemistry-v1.0/s18-08-catalysis.htmlOperating a hand drill at the North American Aviation, Inc., Photo by Alfred T. Palmer, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

DPLAfest 2016. Photo by Jason Dixon https://www.flickr.com/photos/dpla/26587463152/

Archives Unleashed Hackathon. Photo by Jaime Mears https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2016/07/co-hosting-a-datathon-at-the-library-of-congress/

Scientific Laboratory. Photo by Prokudin-Gorskiĭ, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich, https://www.loc.gov/item/prk2000002511/

About North American. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86086342/

Hill Now. https://www.hillnow.com/

Printers' marks of William Caxton and Richard Grafton in North Corridor. Thomas Jefferson Building, photo by Carol Highsmith https://www.loc.gov/resource/highsm.02131/

How Champagne is Made. The San Francisco call., October 12, 1902, Image 15

Chapters in the Bible most frequently quoted together. America’s Public Bible. http://americaspublicbible.org/quoted-together.html

Paris, France, ca. 1920. Photo. https://www.loc.gov/item/2001705736/

Image Delivery API . Everything you ever wanted to know about IIIF but were too afraid to ask http://www.slideshare.net/Cogapp/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-iiif-but-were-too-afraid-to-ask

Images from the StoryCorps.me app. https://storycorps.me/

Archives Unleashed 2.0 slides from Project Mojitos http://archivesunleashed.com/final-projects/

How to use Snapchat. Wired. https://www.wired.com/2016/04/how-to-use-snapchat-guide-millennials/

Modernizing the New York Times Archive. http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/the-future-of-the-past-modernizing-the-new-york-times-archive/?_r=1

Charles Babbage’s Calculating Machine. https://www.loc.gov/item/2006691797/

Interesting Clouds over Inks Lake. Photo by Carol Highsmith. https://www.loc.gov/resource/highsm.28097/

Friendship love and truth. Hand-colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives https://www.loc.gov/item/2001699760/

Theodore Roosevelt Island. Photo by Carol Highsmith, https://www.loc.gov/item/2010630948/