Powerpoint Presentation created for San Jose State University's Virtual Center for Archives & Records Administration's (VCARA) second annual virtual conference, held in Second Life. The theme of the conference was "Virtual Lives Past and Present" and I created a PowerPoint presentation and accompanying podcast on how New York City's Lower East Side Tenement Museum Museum preserves history by providing both physical and digital access to artifacts and how they utilize various media that the in order to both preserve the past and tell new generations' stories.

1. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum: Preserving Yesterday's HISTORY for Tomorrow's GENERATIONS Rosemary Kiladitis VCARA Conference, May 24, 2011 San José State University School of Library & Information Science

4. "They used to go to the Italian theatre... my father loved the movies. Shoot 'em up, bang bang, cowboy pictures, those were his favorite." Josephine Baldizzi, lived at 97 Orchard between 1928-1935 “[My mother]worked very hard in a factory… in fact, she worked in a sweatshop. She’d wash dishes, she’d do anything to make a dollar. She was a hard-working woman.” Josephine Baldizzi Life, in their own words… Oral Histories

5. Glimpses into lives past… Artifacts and Documents

6. FOR REAL: Webcomics depicting the true stories of immigrant teens today, preserving their stories for the future and linking the past with the present

7. TENEMENT-MUSEUM.BLOGSPOT.COM

8. Interacts with Facebook users on Wall Features blog posts and photo albums Promotes events and invites discussion on discussion boards http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lower-East-Side-Tenement-Museum/114377373747?ref=ts

9. FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/TENEMENT