This document summarizes the goals and results of a project called "100 Objects" run by Bradford Special Collections that used social media to share objects from their collection and widen access to the materials. It discusses the milestones they reached in using blogs, Twitter, and a WordPress site to share 100 different collection objects. It outlines their aims to engage communities, shares some successful examples that worked well, issues that came up, and surprises. It concludes by thanking people and teasing details about alpacas related to one of the collection objects.

1. Albany, Alpacas and
Archaeology: social media and
widening access
Alison Cullingford
Special Collections Librarian
@speccollbrad
Discovering Collections
Discovering Communities
29 October 2014

2. The Story So Far: milestones
1. Web pages
2. Blogs
3. Twitter
4. 100 Objects

3. http://100objectsbradford.wordpress.com/

4. More Than a Blog: our project aims
Object 66: Jacquetta
Hawkes in 1939

5. An Archive Pacesetter
Object 54: Sarah
Meyer’s Greenham
Common Archive

6. Measuring and Assessing
Object 69: Plan of
Isaac Holden’s
Oakworth House

7. Successes: what worked
Object 87: J.B.
Priestley’s Shirt

8. Issues: what didn’t work
Object 99:
Prehistoric Society
Minute-books

9. Surprises: (mostly pleasant)
Object 23:
Coat of Arms

10. Our Next Steps
Object 36: Patterns
from Ackermann’s
Repository

11. Thank You!
P.S. And those Alpacas?
Object 3: Titus Salt’s Daybook