Pre-Conference #2: "Engaging 21st Century Learners"
Chair: Deborah Schwartz, Brooklyn Historical Society
Speakers:
Joseph Bishop, Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Paula Gangopadhyay, The Henry Ford
Wendy Jones, Minnesota Historical Society
Kent Whitworth and Jody Blankenship, Kentucky Historical Society
Steve Bromage, Maine Historical Society
Marsha Semmel, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Session 2 - Sharing Public History Work: Crowdsourcing Data and Sources
Chair:
Sharon Leon, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Panelists:
Ben Brumfield, FromThePage Open-Source Transcription Software
David Klevan, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ben Vershbow, New York Public Library Labs
Ian MacKaye, co-founder of Dischord Records will discuss the history of the Fugazi Live Series, the unique model they chose to finance and sustain the project, and the methodology of creating the archive itself
Session 4 - Digital Voices: Creating and Preserving Oral History Collections
Chair:
Bob Horton, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Panelists:
Doug Boyd, University of Kentucky Libraries
Eileen McAdam, Sound and Story Project
Dean Rehberger, Matrix, Michigan State University
Robert Warren, Illinois State Museum
Session 5 - Better Together: Multi-Institutional Solutions to Digital Challenges
Chair:
Chris Reich, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Panelists:
Christina DePaolo, Balboa Park Online Collaborative
Carole Ann Fabian, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
Ramesh Srinivasan, UCLA