How did a small two-person library capture national media attention, become a focus of high-profile museum exhibits, and generate 13 million views of its online photos in just a few years? They built on a framework of eight values to drive innovative services and greatly enhance the information-seeking experience of their users. With a combination of free and low-cost web tools, savvy marketing, and innovations borrowed from archives and museums, Kenn Bicknell embarked on an aggressive digitization and outreach program to push information out to his constituents in creative, engaging ways. Find inspiration and practical ideas that can breathe new life into your collections and keep libraries front and center in users' lives.

Presented by: Kenn Bicknell, Digital Resources Librarian, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Library and Archive

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Related Resources and Links

• Metro’s Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive
• Metro Transportation Research Library and Archive on:
  
  • YouTube
  • Facebook
  • Tumblr
  • HistoryPin
  • Twitter
• "Better Than Free" Values, inspired by Kevin Kelly, in The Technium blog
• Collective Wisdom: An Exploration of Library, Archives and Museum Cultures by the participants in the Library, Archives and Museum Conference Exchange project (Kenn was part of the Collective Wisdom cohort!)
• “News Use Across Social Media Platforms, 2016” Pew Research Center

Community Curation

• LA as Subject: Collectively Preserving, Archiving and Sharing the History and Culture of the Los Angeles Region
• Lost L.A. documentary film series
  
• Metro Transportation Research Library & Archives’ 11,000+ digital image collection on Flickr (accessed 13+ million times)
• Tiki-Toki Interactive timelines:  
  • Union Station 75^th Anniversary on Tiki-Toki
    
  • "Before The Blue Line": Los Angeles – Long Beach Transit, 1901-1991 on Tiki-Toki
    
• StoryMap (interactive timeline with dynamic background)
• PeoplePlotr interactive family trees
  • Los Angeles Transit History family tree on PeoplePlotr
    

Strategic Collaboration

• LA as Subject Archives Bazaar
• Historypin
  • Metro Transportation Research Library & Archive on Historypin
  • 1984 Summer Olympics tour on Historypin.
    
• "Never Built Los Angeles" A+D Museum exhibit
• "Overdrive: L.A. Constructs The Future" Getty Museum exhibit