Albany, Alpacas and Archaeology: social media and

widening access

Alison Cullingford

Special Collections Librarian

@speccollbrad

Discovering CollectionsDiscovering Communities

29 October 2014

The Story So Far: milestones

1. Web pages2. Blogs3. Twitter4. 100 Objects

http://100objectsbradford.wordpress.com/

More Than a Blog: our project aims

Object 66: Jacquetta Hawkes in 1939

An Archive Pacesetter

Object 54: Sarah Meyer’s Greenham Common Archive

Measuring and Assessing

Object 69: Plan of Isaac Holden’s Oakworth House

Successes: what worked

Object 87: J.B. Priestley’s Shirt

Issues: what didn’t work

Object 99: Prehistoric Society Minute-books

Surprises: (mostly pleasant)

Object 23: Coat of Arms

Our Next Steps

Object 36: Patterns from Ackermann’s Repository

Thank You!

P.S. And those Alpacas?Object 3: Titus Salt’s Daybook