Using storify - work done by @abcemergency

ABC Emergency on storify is great local studies work. This account brings together information about (mostly weather related) emergencies across Australia.  I would be interested to know how local studies staff are using this information and these resources as part of their collections as photographs of different local areas are included.

Have a look at the work done by ABC news on storify too.

Using storify - work done by @hrw

Human Rights Watch uses storify to highlight issues of concern around the world.  I have embedded a recent one, but you can see more here. I am including this group because of the wider information potential they have.

yet another post about Storify and local studies

I know Storify is not a conservation tool, but it is a useful way to bring together material which you may choose to collect for your library in other ways. ABC Emergency does a great job with Storify to bring together information (mostly) about extreme weather.

Think about how this could be used for bringing together information of local interest, with local studies potential.

The Hunt Library visualization experience

I really like the way I can find out about some of the amazing things happening at this library.  They are doing amazing things, and are sharing them - which is just as important.

Women's Institute centenary and award winning embroidered tweets

This came via my Storify alerts.  It is a lovely celebration of the Women's Institute in the UK, and there are tweets being stitched.

The centenary happened last year, but they won a social media campaign award for this work.

Very pleased to announce we won Social Media Campaign of the Year with @umpf for the #theWI_100years tWItterstitch https://t.co/amh45ShFeG

— Women's Institute (@WomensInstitute) March 10, 2016

Have a look at their twitter stream and you will see much potential for local studies and contemporary collecting.

lovely use of Storify by @AshmoleanMuseum

I have been following the Ashmolean Museum on Storify for a while, as they tell wonderful stories on it. This one is sharing how visitors have been talking about an exhibition. I like the mix of corporate accounts and personal accounts.

I know Storify is not a preservation tool, but it is a way of bringing together how people are talking about events, and locations, so a possible use for local studies collecting.

local studies recording of the recent rain and floods in Tasmania

The recent rain in Tasmania was Storified by ABC news. This is a way of collecting some local images of rain and floods. It is the first step to adding these images to a local studies collection, and possibly tracking people down to interview for an oral history collection as well.

British Museum and #askacurator Storify

British Museum did a lovely Storify of their participation in #askacurator.  This highlights some lovely use of both the hashtag and Storify.  It was lovely to see how different curators were featured.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Other examples of #askacurator happening on other days... Musees d'Angers had their own day a few months ago

About Star Wars costume from the Smithsonian

Instameet at the USA National Archives

This is a lovely story in so many ways. It is a lovely use of Storify, it is great to hear that the USA National Archives ran an Instameet, and that is was so successful (judging from the great photographs). It is very much about the building architecture, but that is fine.

storify for local studies

I keep expecting to see more libraries using Storify as a way of profiling local events, and collecting together social media about their community.  There are some libraries using it, but not many.  I realise that it is not an archival tool but it at least brings things together so you can then address the archiving, rather than not having the collection.

The National Theatre of Scotland makes great use of Storify.  They use it to bring together comments people are making about their performances.

The Medievalists account brings together (and it is not a surprise given the name),  medieval matters.

Museums, such as the British Museum, The Ashmolean, and the Science Museum, are all doing interesting things with Storify. Catherine Fletcher tweeted and storified about the television production of Wolf Hall (highlighting the research). Trove is using it too.

It can be used for fiction, such as this (rather creepy) work by Chuck Wendig.

Other libraries are deliberately experimenting with it, but it would seem a fit for at least temporary collection of material of relevance to local studies.

Winged Victory, story telling and local studies

This was in a flier which was distributed by the council

as was this
 
This article appeared in the local paper

You can read more about the Winged Victory ale here, here, and here, and more about the Winged Victory here, and the Marrickville ANZAC march here.

It struck me, that what I find most interesting in this is the story telling.  It is local history, connected to an international event, but through the new storytelling, interesting people in the past in a way they can connect to.

There is a lot of the commemoration of the centenary of the First World War which is not good, but this, because it is connecting to the local war memorial seems to work.  It is a very different depiction to that given in this very impressive and moving, then and now photograph series in the Guardian

Brilliant Gallipoli Then & Now from @GuardianAus http://t.co/zbTfUxMmZZ
— Paul Hagon (@paulhagon) April 23, 2015

but it still works.

You can see a Storify here showing how Winged Victory was depicted as part of Marrickville remembers.

The beermat
 
and the growler
 

storify of selected tweets from 2+3D photography – practice and prophecies

I followed this on twitter, so a big thanks to those who tweeted. Much to think about for libraries and local studies in here, as well as looking at some wonderful, amazing work.

Storify of Sree Sreenivasan on social media best practices

You can watch the video
and read the Storify. It is great the way this can be shared online, for those of us who could not be there.

Tate Museum #museumweek discussion about museums of the future

This online discussion about museums highlights areas of interest to libraries as well, in thinking about the future.

Conservation talk on twitter with Tate staff

Lovely Storify of a q&a session with Tate staff

Ashmolean Museum reporting comments about exhibitions

I really like the way the Ashmolean Museum is reporting on visits to their exhibition.  Sharing the stories is excellent.

Archives Week and Storify

I enjoy a good use of Storify, and this one from the UK National Archives is a lovely one.  It highlights the range of work archives do.  Have a look at their other uses of Storify as well.

interesting use of Storify

I subscribe to updates from Storify which usually means I receive alerts about people I follow on twitter, and a few Storify accounts I follow like Human Rights Watch, ABC news, and National Theatre of Scotland, all really interesting accounts.  The embedded Storify came through as well, and while it is not my usual reading, it is interesting because it is an effective use of Storify.  It has the the branding of the business (Clarence House) and effective use of the text insert areas, to add to the story told through social media.  It also shows how a hashtag (even a really long one) can be socialised into use.

I like finding out who is using Storify

I am a huge fan of Storify, so I like coming across new instances of who is using it and seeing how it is used to tell their story.