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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]
Putting Collections to Work
1. Where are your users?
2. Who do you want to play with?
3. What will your next experiment be?
Meet users where they are
wardepartmentpapers.org
scripto.org
http://digital.wustl.edu/ferguson/
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/.
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/.
mallhistory.org
mallhistory.org
mallhistory.org
mallhistory.org
Play nicely with others
braceroarchive.org
historyharvest.unl.edu
curatescape.org
europeana.eu
dp.la
Embrace and support experimentation
https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/colors/
Putting Collections to Work
1. Meet users where they are
2. Play nicely with others
3. Embrace and support experimentation
Putting Collections to Work
1. Where are your users?
2. Who do you want to play with?
3. What will your next experiment be?
Beyond BrowseMobilizing Digital Collections and Engaging Users
Sharon M. LeonDirector, Public Projects
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media@sleonchnm | [email protected]