Category: News From Libraries, Archives & Museums
Information On The Go: Metro Library Figures Prominently In “Go Metro Los Angeles” Free Mobile App
Nearly half of Americans now own a smartphone, so it is understandable that a tidal wave of information is coming to them through handheld devices — up from just 35% nine months ago. In response to the growing need for anytime, anywhere resources, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) has just announced [...]
New And Powerful Transportation Research Tool: Metro Library Launches Robust Catalog Portal
Just in time for the holidays, we are pleased to make this major announcement: This afternoon, we rolled out our new online public access catalog. Times change — and so does technology. After 11 years with our previous system, it was time for an upgrade to support our technological needs and to meet the expectations [...]
Mapping Los Angeles’ Transportation Legacy: Metro Library & Archive Brings History Alive As A Global Launch Partner For Historypin
This month, we’re proud to announce our role as a Global Launch Partner in Historypin — a new multi-platform technology that strives to share photographs from around the world and the stories behind them — in bringing together people and their shared history. When we first learned of Historypin exactly one year ago, we wrote [...]
Metro Library Becomes Part Of Transportation History In Contribution To The Henry Ford Museum Exhibit
The Henry Ford Museum has announced that a small piece of Metro’s Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library & Archive will be part a new permanent exhibit at their institution. The Henry Ford is a family-oriented educational complex in Dearborn Michigan. This National Historic Landmark is the nation’s “largest indoor-outdoor history museum,” holding 1 million artifacts and 25 million documents spanning [...]
“Creating Our Own Story”: How Metro Transportation Library & Archive Has Shared Collections And Information Since 1937
April 10-16 marks National Library Week! Every April, The American Library Association sponsors a week-long celebration of libraries. This year’s theme is “Create Your Own Story,” one that is quite fitting for us. As a library, we have always been challenged to create our own story because we are unique in so many ways. We are [...]
1,000,000 And Counting: Metro Library’s Historic Photo Collection On Flickr Hits A Major Milestone
Today, we achieved something extraordinary: Our online photo collection has been viewed more than one million times on Flickr since implementation. Just over two years ago, we began uploading the first of what is now more than 7,000 scanned images from our historic collection of over 20,000 photographs in order to more effectively share our cultural repository of [...]
Digitization And Transportation: Northwestern University’s Google Books Project
Beginning today, Northwestern University’s Transportation Library begins its Google Books Digitization Project. The University Libraries and Google are partnering to digitize hundreds of thousands of print volumes from their collections, rendering the contents readily available to scholars and researchers worldwide. This is no small undertaking. The Transportation Library alone is one of the most extensive [...]
Our National Archives At Risk: What The Government Accountability Office Has Found
We wanted to share important (and frankly, frightening) news with you regarding the findings released last week of an audit of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The audit (42p. PDF) was prompted in part by the loss of the Wright Brothers’ original patent and maps for atomic bomb missions in Japan. These losses [...]
Metro Library’s Digital Documents Collection: What You Need To Know About "Anytime, Anywhere" Access
The Metro Transportation Library has begun collecting, cataloging and providing access to “digital” documents via our online catalog. These important resources have been produced and disseminated in electronic format – rather than being released “on paper.” Up until now, we had been providing access to plenty of digitized documents – those which were scanned to [...]
This Is Social Media Week In Los Angeles!
It’s Social Media Week here in Los Angeles. This global platform for conversation, collaboration and learning connects hundreds of thousands of people in different cities around the world in hopes of raising consciousness about social media’s role in society. Participating cities this week include not only Los Angeles, but Bogota, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and [...]
