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one of our current projects is something called Sonoma responds. It's a community memory archive that we are making available both in english and spanish were collecting community stories of the unusual times we're in. People have submitted artwork, videos, journals, recipes, various things, photographs, along with suggestions

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for websites to add to our web archive. And we also even have a small number of physical objects donated through this project that will photograph and describe later. It's been very popular and we've had a great response on it. We've had a number of articles on

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our, in our local newspaper about it and we're also collaborating with our local State University, Sonoma State, as well as other organizations. The whole thing is very different from our other collections and one of the features is that we are able to had to it very

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regularly as we get new submissions. That's a pretty easy process. And the experience with this collection has inspired a number of our librarians proposed other collections that would consist of community submitted content, videos, artwork, interviews, some neighborhood specific, some focused on musicians who have not had

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a chance to perform during the pandemic. And all of these new projects will help us bring additional audience to our digital collections.