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Beyond Browse Mobilizing Digital Collections and Engaging Users Sharon M. Leon Director, Public Projects Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media @sleonchnm | [email protected]

Beyond Browse: Mobilizing Digital Collections and Engaging Users

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A talk given for the Catholic University of America's Department of Library and Information Sciences Fall Colloquium. October 20, 2014

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Beyond BrowseMobilizing Digital Collections and Engaging Users

Sharon M. LeonDirector, Public Projects

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media@sleonchnm | [email protected]

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Putting Collections to Work

1. Where are your users?

2. Who do you want to play with?

3. What will your next experiment be?

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Meet users where they are

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wardepartmentpapers.org

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scripto.org

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http://digital.wustl.edu/ferguson/

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Mobile First

❖ 90% of American adults have a cell phone

❖ 58% of American adults have a smartphone

❖ 32% of American adults have an e-reader

❖ 42% of American adults own a tablet computer

(January 2014)“Mobile Technology Fact Sheet,” Pew Research Internet Project, http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/mobile-technology-fact-sheet/.

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Responsive Design

❖ 63% of cell phone owners user their phone to go online

❖ 34% mostly use their phone to go online

(September 2013)

Maeve Duggan and Aaron Smith, “Cell Internet Use 2013,” Pew Research Internet Project, (September 16, 2013) http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/09/16/cell-internet-use-2013/.

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mallhistory.org

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mallhistory.org

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mallhistory.org

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mallhistory.org

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Play nicely with others

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braceroarchive.org

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historyharvest.unl.edu

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curatescape.org

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europeana.eu

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dp.la

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Embrace and support experimentation

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https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/colors/

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Putting Collections to Work

1. Meet users where they are

2. Play nicely with others

3. Embrace and support experimentation

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Putting Collections to Work

1. Where are your users?

2. Who do you want to play with?

3. What will your next experiment be?

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Beyond BrowseMobilizing Digital Collections and Engaging Users

Sharon M. LeonDirector, Public Projects

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media@sleonchnm | [email protected]