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The library\u2019s collection now boasts more than 167 million individual items. The staggering 838 miles of bookshelves contain books, printed materials, recordings, photographs, maps, sheet music, and manuscripts. With 12,000 new items added daily, many of these national treasures will never be part of a physical exhibit.\r\n\r\nAs the library embraces the twenty-first century, its leaders have adopted a strategic plan for 2016 through 2020 that will share more of its collections using new technologies, systems, and online tools. Physical exhibits cost money, take time, and are available only to those who can physically visit the library. The library has empowered curators with digital tools to reach an increasingly connected global audience beyond the library\u2019s walls.\r\n\r\nLibrary leaders initiated a 10- to 12-week pilot program to test Esri Story Maps apps as a new method for curating collections. Story maps let users combine text, images, and multimedia content in an interactive application that tells stories through the power of geography using GIS. During the trial program, 10 employees from six library divisions used the online platform to create presentations that illuminate previously unseen collections. The curators chose compelling materials that had never been exhibited and readied their story maps for presentation during LOC\u2019s GIS Day celebration on November 15, 2017."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":54172,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The exercise shined a light on collections that otherwise might never have been seen. Story maps provided new ways for the 10 curators to explore and share their collections. They used existing location data in their subject matter to better understand each collection, tease out new insights, and foster connections between different divisions at LOC as curators collaborated to enrich each other\u2019s projects. Perhaps most important, they created a means of sharing collections with anyone in the world who has an Internet connection.\r\n\r\n\u201cI was able to give a voice to a collection and make it my own,\u201d said Francisco Macias of the Law Library of Congress. \u201cI think many of us who work in the library oftentimes think, \u2018Why don\u2019t they do an exhibition on this?\u2019 This provides an opportunity to bring collections to life.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":49952,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The cloud-based Esri Story Maps platform will be available to all library staff. Pilot project participants are looking forward to creating more digital exhibits using story maps. Three story maps have been published on the Library of Congress website (www.loc.gov<\/a>), and the library has plans to share more story maps on the website.\r\n\r\n\u201cI find story maps to be a twenty-first-century tool for a twenty-first-century library,\u201d said Stephanie Stillo of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. \u201cStory maps give us this fun and user-friendly way to mine deeper into our collections through mapping our data and through creative visualization. More and more people are reaching out to the library through our website, and I think it\u2019s important that we\u2019re reaching back to them with information that\u2019s interactive, that\u2019s engaging, and that has that stamp of authority from the Library of Congress.\u201d"}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"\nCurators at the Library of Congress Embrace Story Maps | Summer 2018 | ArcUser<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Library of Congress is using Esri Story Maps apps to virtually share parts of its massive collection.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/curators-at-the-library-of-congress-embrace-story-maps\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Curators at the Library of Congress 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