Contributed by Jenna Marrone The DVAG meeting held last Thursday, March 21, at the Mummers Museum sparkled with pageantry, pizzazz, and that most glamorous of user engagement tools – metrics. Azavea’s Deb Boyer spoke on the benefits of using website metrics to evaluate the ways in which users interact with digital collections. Based on her … More PhillyHistory.org’s Deb Boyer interprets website metrics
via the Library Company of Philadelphia: One of the original feet to the secretary desk owned by William Penn has been found! This wonderful discovery is due to the help of a number of people. It all began when Laura Keim, curator of the Germantown Historical Society’s collection, came across a foot in their collection … More Penn desk finds fit foot
The next DVAG meeting will be on Thursday, March 21 from 4:00-6:00pm at The Riverfront Mummers Museum 1100 S 2nd St Philadelphia, PA 19147 (215) 336-3050 Joan Decker, Records Commissioner, City of Philadelphia, will greet and introduce Deb Boyer. Deb Boyer, Azavea, will present PhillyHistory Website Metrics! Joan Decker and Jill Rawnsley will be available to answer any other questions about the … More Next DVAG Meeting, March 21
Contributed by Jenna Marrone If the stack of empty pizza boxes was any indication, then last week’s Archivists Being Awesome (ABA) event was a raging success! The meeting, which took place Thursday night, February 28, at Temple University’s Paley Library, featured fifteen-minute presentations from four Philadelphia-area archivists. Margery Sly, Director of the Special Collections Research … More Another successful meeting of Archivists Being Awesome
Delaware Valley Archivists Group 