FREE Historypin workshop in Orange County in January!

The Heritage Coordinating Council is excited to offer this hands-on digital history workshop, for FREE, to the Orange County heritage community!

Historypin is an EXCELLENT way to generate more exposure and interest in your digital collections. Don’t have a fancy shmancy iPhone or Android mobile app for your heritage website? Historypin allows you to create virtual mobile tours for free.

About Historypin

Historypin is a new, free, easy to use location-based digital history archive. It “crowd sources” a particular location’s digital story by allowing heritage institutions and individuals to contribute their digital photos, videos and audio to the public archive, and “pinning” these digital objects to Google Maps. Members of the public can then contribute memories and historical details to these digital collections. Heritage institutions and individuals can also create and share “virtual tours” for others to follow.

Historypin exists as a website and as a mobile app for both Apple and Android devices – the free mobile apps make it an excellent low/no-cost way for heritage institutions to encourage the public to embark on virtual history tours throughout your local community and collections.

About the Workshop

Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Time: 10:30 am to 12pm (immediately following our abbreviated HCC meeting from 10am to 10:30am)
Location: Pollak Library (PLN 303) at Cal State Fullerton

Workshop participants will learn how to use the public archive like a “regular person”, and how to also contribute items from your own collections. In order to get the most from your hands-on learning experience, we ask that you bring at least one dozen photos on a flash drive, DVD or CD that 1) you have the necessary rights to share, and 2) whose geographic locality you can easily identify on a map – if you aren’t sure of the exact location where the photo was taken, that photo is not a good candidate for this workshop.

Manny Escamilla, archivist at the Santa Ana Public Library's (SAPL) Santa Ana History Room, will share about SAPL's experience as the first (and so far, ONLY), Orange County heritage partner to get involved with this hot new exciting digital history project.

We can seat up to 60 people in this classroom, but we only have 30 computers (PCs) available. So, if you have your own laptop, we encourage you to bring it – Pollak Library has free wifi. And if you have an iPhone, iPad, Android phone or Android tablet, we encourage you to bring those as well if you’d like to also explore and demonstrate the mobile app and tours. You will be required to indicate on the RSVP form if you need a PC, or if you are bringing your own laptop.

Reservations Required: RSVP online.

About the Instructor

Colleen Greene, MLIS, is a frequent present and instructor on social media and Web 2.0 topics. She is a librarian, web developer, technologist, and trainer. As the systems librarian at the Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton, Colleen is charged with investigating and implementing emerging technology solutions for the library and the campus community. With an academic background in history and research interests in digital history, Colleen is committed to helping heritage institutions learn how to use these solutions to enhance their collections and services.

Parking on Campus

Pollak Library is located in the center of campus, identified as PL on the campus map.

There should be plenty of parking on campus during Intersession.

Parking is identified in purple on the map, but I suggest you exit Nutwood Ave. from the 57 freeway. Turn west (you'll pass the Fullerton Marriott) and turn immediately right onto Folino Drive. Stay right and park in the Eastside Parking Structure (EPS on the map). There’s a parking permit machine in the parking structure. $8/daily rate (exact change), although Park and Pay, campus’ pre-pay short-term parking is available for $2/hour (maximum 2 hours) on the ground level.

Daily permits may be purchased in Lots: A, G, S, Arts drive, and levels 2, 4, 6 in the State College and Eastside Structures during all hours in which permits are required. Daily permits are valid in all student lots and structures.

Additional Parking Information available here.

Still Have Questions?

If you have questions about parking, HCC or the January meeting, please contact:

Stephanie George, Archivist
Center for Oral and Public History, California State University, Fullerton
(657) 278-3693 or sgeorge@fullerton.edu

If you have questions about the Historypin workshop curriculum, please contact:

Colleen Greene, Systems Librarian
Pollak Library, California State University Fullerton
(657) 278-3991 or cgreene@fullerton.edu

Our November 2011 HCC meeting is this Tuesday!

Photo courtesy of California State University, Fullerton.

Hello, everyone! 

After all of the heat we’ve endured, let’s hope this cool weather is here to stay.  After all, it’s nearly November!

And, speaking of November, this is just your reminder that our meeting of the Heritage Coordinating Council meeting is next TUESDAY, November 1.

• Host:  Friends of the Arboretum, Fullerton Arboretum
• Address: 1900 Associated Road, Fullerton, CA
• Time: 10 a.m. – 12 noon.
• Parking: PLENTIFUL, CLOSE, and FREE!

We’ll meet in the classroom pavilion near the Orange County Agricultural and Nikkei Heritage Museum.  We’re going to try and finish our business about 11:15 or so after which we’ll have access to the exhibit, New Birth of Freedom: Civil War to Civil Rights in California. 

Please RSVP to me about Tuesday and I’ll forward your responses along to Jorice Maag. 

Moreover, if you can’t make it, please let me know if there’s anything you’d like announced and I’ll make sure to include it.  Whether it’s a grant award, a new donation, free software or something you learned at a workshop you’d like to share, let’s take advantage of this network that’s been active for nearly forty years.

Just a quick heads up:  January’s meeting (January 10) will be held at the Center for Oral and Public History during which we’ll have a demonstration about Historypin by Colleen Greene. 

Hope to see you soon!

Stephanie

Stephanie George

Archivist

Center for Oral and Public History

California State University, Fullerton

(657) 278-3693

sgeorge@fullerton.edu

A timely example of why your local history organization needs to blog!

Image courtesy of the Bowery Boys.

My fellow techie history/genealogy-geek bud JD Thomas shared this post on Google+ today as an example of why heritage institutions need to be blogging, and not just focusing on newsletters and print publications (both of which still serve an important purpose):

This is why Blogging is so important for institutions. Being about to get an article like this out within an hour is amazing.

New York city local historians the Bowery Boys quickly responded to today's big East Coast earthquake by writing up a comparison to the big earthquake that hit NYC in 1884.

The Bowery Boys: New York City History: The Earthquake of 1884! A few parallels to today's...: New York has never suffered severely from the effects of an earthquake. But the one just felt today -- reportedly of 5.8 or 5.9 magnitude, c...

If your heritage organization isn't already blogging, what's holding you back?  Lack of interesting historical content?  Lack of staff and time to write?  Not sure how to set up or manage a blog?  Your board doesn't understand the point of blogging?  We'd like to know, and maybe we can help with some tips!