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The Lower East Side Tenement Museum: Preserving Yesterday's HISTORY for Tomorrow's GENERATIONS Rosemary Kiladitis VCARA Conference, May 24, 2011 San José State University School of Library & Information Science
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Powerpoint Presentation created for San Jose State University's Virtual Center for Archives & Records Administration's (VCARA) second annual virtual conference, held in Second Life. The theme of the conference was "Virtual Lives Past and Present" and I created a PowerPoint presentation and accompanying podcast on how New York City's Lower East Side Tenement Museum Museum preserves history by providing both physical and digital access to artifacts and how they utilize various media that the in order to both preserve the past and tell new generations' stories.
Transcript of Tenement Museum/Virtual Communities VCARA
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum:
Preserving Yesterday's HISTORY for Tomorrow's
GENERATIONS
Rosemary KiladitisVCARA Conference, May 24, 2011
San José State University School of Library & Information Science
"They used to go to the Italian theatre... my
father loved the movies. Shoot 'em up, bang
bang, cowboy pictures, those were his
favorite." Josephine Baldizzi, lived at 97
Orchard between 1928-1935
“[My mother] worked very hard in a
factory… in fact, she worked in a sweatshop.
She’d wash dishes, she’d do anything to make
a dollar. She was a hard-working woman.”
Josephine Baldizzi
Life, in their own words… Oral Histories
Glimpses into lives past… Artifacts and Documents
FOR REAL: Webcomics depicting the true stories of immigrant teens today, preserving their
stories for the future and linking the past with the present
TENEMENT-MUSEUM.BLOGSPOT.COM
Interacts with Facebook users on Wall
Features blog posts and photo albums
Promotes events and invites discussion on discussion boards
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lower-East-Side-Tenement-Museum/114377373747?ref=ts
FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/TENEMENT
![The Griffiths [Tenement] Valuation Books & Maps c.1860.](https://static.fdocuments.us/doc/165x107/5516cdb3550346b5748b469e/the-griffiths-tenement-valuation-books-maps-c1860.jpg)
