DPLAfest 2019

Local history collections in public libraries have long served as vital resources for documenting community memory, but how are they adapting to the ascendance of the web as the primary platform for publication and communication? In this session you will hear from participants in, and founders of, the "Community Webs" program, a national-scale effort to build a network of public librarians with the training and tools to build born-digital local history collections preserving the lives of their communities as expressed on the web and in social media.