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Start Spreading The News. A Journey In Social Media Usage For Outreach In A Cooperative Digitization Project, Erenst R. Anip
Start Spreading The News. A Journey In Social Media Usage For Outreach In A Cooperative Digitization Project, Erenst R. Anip
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Social media is an excellent outreach tool that can be an effective and cost-friendly way to be heard and tell people about valuable primary resources. However, as major projects go, they are part of a larger institution – or cooperative group of institutions – and that entails a look at broader or related procedures and collaboration between partners. Ensuring that social media efforts are in accordance with institutional guidelines and policies is crucial. Creating a social media framework and guidelines to focus outreach and communication for a particular project is highly recommended. It is also important to focus guidelines in …
Bringing The Past To The People: Outreach Efforts And Value-Added Content For Chronicling America In Hawaii And Vermont., Erenst R. Anip, Jodie Mattos
Bringing The Past To The People: Outreach Efforts And Value-Added Content For Chronicling America In Hawaii And Vermont., Erenst R. Anip, Jodie Mattos
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Since 2008, the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) Library has digitized over 200,000 pages of historical English language newspapers in Hawaii published between 1836-1922. This is being done under the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC) grant funding. Starting in its second two-year grant cycle, the Hawaii Digital Newspaper Project (HDNP) focuses more on bringing the news to the people through digital and in-person outreach activities that foster community research on genealogy or local history. By adding value to the digitized content using social media (i.e. Flickr albums and Facebook/Twitter cross-postings) and integrating it …