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San Diego Public Library Community Webs: Empowering Public Librarians to Create Community History Web Archives Hoan-Vu Do

Public Library Why is web archiving important? Web archiving is the process of • collecting, preserving, and ensuring access to online content. A typical web page last about 92 days • before changing, moving, or going offline. The web is now well established as the • medium of record for a plethora of information. The web is also a source of many types • of historical records that have no equivalent in analog form.

Public Library Web Archiving in Public Libraries 2014 NDSA Survey results: 2% from Public Libraries Many public libraries have long histories of collecting analog materials documenting their region. What happens now that these are now increasingly published exclusively online?

Public Library Internet Archive Education & Training Establish a cohort network of public librarians • doing web archiving to preserve local history Support further cohort building, professional • development activities, and outreach Collection Development Create open, dedicated training and OER • materials on community memory web archiving Seed innovative local programing and • partnerships Expanding National Capacity Provide web archiving services and • infrastructure and ongoing storage and access Build an extensible program model that can be • scaled and applied to other domains

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Public Library Challenges on the web Most content captures very easily, but some exceptions include: Dynamic text and images • Maps that zoom in and out • Media that requires clicking a • “play” button Dynamic navigation menu • Databases • Challenging formats Video • Social media • Interactive media • Blogs • Audio •

Public Library Collection Development Outreach Solicit content recommendations • Promote archive as a community resource • Key Constituents Colleagues – Inside and beyond library • Patrons – Library and Archive patrons • Members of the Public – Newcomers, • Community Groups, Non-library users