 Welcome to this introduction of our new Long Beach Public Library Digital Archive. Right now there's a news item on our homepage www.lbpl.org that tells you a little bit about the archive. There's photos, city directories, and high school yearbooks in the archive and we're just getting started. Eventually we'll have more than 10,000 Long Beach specific photos. First off how do you find the archive? You can click on the digital archive link from the news item. You can go to the library catalog menu and mouse over to the lbpl digital archive or you can also find the images and the pdf files from the digital archive right within our power search tool Encore which you can get to by clicking on the image here orange or library catalog to Encore power So let's go to Encore. From Encore you can do a simple keyword search. I'm going to look for the pike hit enter or the orange button. The quickest way to refine my search results to only images from the Long Beach Public Library Digital Archive is to click on the images link right here and you'll see that I'm on the first 25 of 51 images that we already have in the talk about the Long Beach Pike. The other way to do it is to click on lbpl digital archive under location these will take you to the same thing. In your search results you can either click directly go to this record to go to the image in the Long Beach Public Library Digital Archive or in Encore you can click on the title and get a little bit more information about the image like all of our items in Encore when you're logged in with your library card you can add a tag add a review or add a star rating from here I can also click go to this record which will take me into the digital archive to get a better view of the image click on the image or click open here you're going to find a low resolution watermarked version of this image we also have a high resolution version of this image available for purchase more information about that later now that we're in the Long Beach Public Library Digital Archive I can click on home and see the three collections that make up the archive the first one I'll talk about is the Long Beach Photos currently we have just over 500 photos and we're working on this every week to add more photos to the collection I can do a keyword search from the collection and find all of the images that contain the keyword women whether it's a subject title description or whatever now I'm going to click home and talk about the high school yearbooks we have yearbooks for Jordan Polly and Wilson for certain years 76 yearbooks in total I click on this to open and please be patient because these PDF files can be large once I've opened the PDF in my browser I can use the search tool within here to look for the person I'm looking for someone of the last name Jones so it's going to find every instance of the word Jones that it can read in this particular yearbook of this year and it's going to highlight it for me the next collection is the Long Beach City directories again for select years I can search by business person or address I find the directory that I want click on it again click open once it opens I use the search tool within here to find the address person or business that I'm looking for if you need more information about the history collection including the Long Beach Public Library Digital Archive please visit let us know if you need any help searching the Long Beach Public Library Digital Archive or if you have any questions about using the images in the archive thank you for listening bye