PLASC Lightning Round: Katie O'Connell
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Bruno Centennial: Creating an Interactive History Timeline KATHLEEN O’CONNELL SAN BRUNO PUBLIC LIBRARY SAA 2014
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Creating an interactive history timeline for the City of San Bruno centennial celebration.
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City of San Bruno Centennial:
Creating an Interactive History Timeline
KATHLEEN O’CONNELL
SAN BRUNO PUBLIC LIBRARY
SAA 2014
Our Historical Collections
Collection Materials (1850-Present) Photographs, newspapers, oral histories,
ephemera
Access Efforts Digitization Projects 2005 & 2013
159 items on Online Archive of California
254 items total
Unorganized, unprocessed & inaccessible
Queen Edith Schmidt Cook of the Charter Day Parade, 1914
Centennial Timeline Project
Increase awareness of & interest in historical material
Build coherent historical narrative
Create an enduring & useful tool
Web-based timeline application
Our timeline (1849-Present) contains over 80 events
Historic photographs, audio & video clips
Links to external content
Timeglider
Add Description
Add Image
Add Links
Ta-da!
Going Live!Access & Outreach
Timeline to go public September 2014
Access through centennial website, sanbruno100.org
Community involvement: “Suggestions welcome!”
Liaise with local teachers Maintained beyond
centennial celebrationsWomen Fliers at Mills Field Municipal
Airport, 1927
