City of San Bruno Centennial:

Creating an Interactive History Timeline

KATHLEEN O’CONNELL

SAN BRUNO PUBLIC LIBRARY

SAA 2014

Our Historical Collections

Collection Materials (1850-Present) Photographs, newspapers, oral histories,

ephemera

Access Efforts Digitization Projects 2005 & 2013

159 items on Online Archive of California

254 items total

Unorganized, unprocessed & inaccessible

Queen Edith Schmidt Cook of the Charter Day Parade, 1914

Centennial Timeline Project

Increase awareness of & interest in historical material

Build coherent historical narrative

Create an enduring & useful tool

Web-based timeline application

Our timeline (1849-Present) contains over 80 events

Historic photographs, audio & video clips

Links to external content

Timeglider

Add Description

Add Image

Add Links

Ta-da!

Going Live!Access & Outreach

Timeline to go public September 2014

Access through centennial website, sanbruno100.org

Community involvement: “Suggestions welcome!”

Liaise with local teachers Maintained beyond

centennial celebrationsWomen Fliers at Mills Field Municipal

Airport, 1927