1. Archives 2.0 on a micro scale Amanda Hill Hillbraith Ltd.

2. What I’ll be covering  Context  Activities  Measuring use  Assessing impact

3. Deseronto Archives  Total annual budget : $11,000 (£6,000)  Staff: 1 part-time archivist (0.2 FTE)  Open 6 hours per week (Wednesdays)

4. Deseronto

7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserontoarchives/3062243312/ Part of c.1895 plan of Deseronto

8. West docks, c.1900 RATHCO-06-12.5

9. Main Street, 1890s RATHCO-08-02

10. World War I CAMPM-06-13

11. Deseronto Archives Small town History-rich Cash-poor

12. I.T.  Town website (no access for updating by archives staff)  Archives’ PC attached to Deseronto Public Library’s network & Internet –Network drive, backed up  No email account for Archives

13. Archives 2.0 progress…  Sep 2007:Gmail & Google Calendar account for Archives  Oct 2007: Blog set up  Jan 2008: Flickr account opened  Jul 2008: Moved to ‘Pro’ Flickr account  Jan 2009: Began tweeting $47.99 (£26)

15. Using Twitter

16. Measuring Archives 2.0 activity  Basic measures –Blog: 27 posts, 7 comments –Flickr (pro): 362 items, 8,271 views, 15 comments, 4 favourites, 1 note –Twitter: 48 updates, 15 followers

17. Blog statistics

18. Traffic sources

19. Flickr Pro statistics

20. Impact of Archives 2.0 activity  Useful comments  Direct contact and collaboration with users  New accessions (virtual, digital and actual)

21. Flickr comments

22. Flickr notes

23. User-generated notes

24. Virtual collections

26. New digital materials  WWI Royal Flying Corps camps  Camp Mohawk images on Flickr and blog  Email from son of one of the flight instructors at Camp Mohawk, mentioning a photograph album

28. A spur for creativity… http://dcist.com/2009/03/photo_of_the_day_march_9_2009.php

29. Search engines

30. Impact of Twitter?  Early days

31. Confession…

32. Flickr calendar view

33. Impact = effort  Archives 2.0 technologies great for: –raising profile of repository/collections –having unforeseen and positive outcomes  for collection  new relationships and collaborations with users  BUT one of those outcomes might well be extra work for archives staff

34. Archives 2.0 consequences Creation and maintenance of Archives 2.0 presence(s) New conversations with users New content (may be held outside the archive) Finding a personal institutional voice