With Digital Preservation Week nearly upon us, here’s how to entice a group that can be slow to embrace the idea—–teens—to pick up the gauntlet.
Get Teens Interested in Digital Preservation
By The Digital Shift on April 18, 2016
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: (FPO), extra helping, photography, Public Libraries, technology, Teens and Technology
NCSU Shares Open-Source Solution for Crowdsourcing Photos
By Matt Enis on August 16, 2013

On August 15, North Carolina State University Libraries (NCSU Libraries) released lentil, open-source software that supports the harvesting of images and image metadata from Instagram, and enables organizations “to build special collections based around a topic or event, or to invite participation in evaluating a library program,” according to a release.
Filed Under: Featured, Social Media, Software Tagged With: GitHub, Hunt Library, Instagram, LJ, ncsu, open source, photography, Ruby on Rails
Visual Storytelling Site Cowbird
By Kathy Ishizuka on January 16, 2012

Telling a brief story around a single photograph seems like such a simple idea. Add to that a sharing element and you think: another clever web platform. But there’s a lot more to Cowbird.
Filed Under: K-12, Social Media, Transliteracy Tagged With: Cowbird, Jonathan Harris, LJ, photography, SLJ, storytelling