The Red, White, and Black (RWB) project was conceived as a human-guided walking-tour about African-American history at NC State University. The current generation of mobile devices has enabled us to publish this interactive guide on the web, so that anyone with a smart phone can explore this important aspect of university history. This talk outlines the creation of the RWB mobile application, which integrates existing digital collections and infrastructure to provide access to events, images, and audio that highlight the lives and experiences of African-Americans at NC State. This project is one example of the ways NCSU Libraries is creating opportunities for situated discovery and learning. We will explore some of the challenges and possibilities of repurposing special collections materials to provide new avenues for learning, discuss the technologies and infrastructure that make this possible, and highlight future directions for exposing library resources using mobile devices.

1. Handheld Librarian Conference, July 2011 Genya O ’Gara & Cory Lown SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH CENTER DIGITAL LIBRARY INITIATIVES History at Hand Combining Special Collections and Mobile Technology to Engage Students and Faculty with African-American History

2. BACKGROUND Familiar Scenes

3. BACKGROUND Mobile Website

4. BACKGROUND Augmented reality has strong potential to provide both powerful contextual, in situ learning experiences and serendipitous exploration and discovery of the connected nature of information in the real world. New Media Consortium Horizon 2007 Report In Situ Learning

5. BACKGROUND Augmented Reality Spectrum Paul Milgram ’s Reality-Virtuality Continuum

6. BACKGROUND Connect students to university history – in their spaces Engage users with the people, events, and environment that shaped campus Surface archival materials in new ways

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8. WHY Show them this…

9. WHY While listening to this…

10. BACKGROUND When they ’re standing here…

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12. BACKGROUND Walking Tour

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33. FUTURE Special Collections Students Alumni Classes Orientation Recruiting African American Cultural Center Uses

35. REFLECTIONS Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous. --Thomas King

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38. CHALLENGES JQuery Mobile is Beta (was Alpha)

41. The End Questions? Cory Lown Digital Library Initiatives (919) 513-2309 [email_address] Genya O ’Gara Special Collections Research Center (919) 513-2605 [email_address]