{"id":110,"date":"2009-09-23T13:41:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T17:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/2009\/09\/23\/wednesday-spark-franklin-park-public-library\/"},"modified":"2009-09-23T16:03:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T20:03:20","slug":"wednesday-spark-franklin-park-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Spark: Franklin Park Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franklinparklibrary.org\/about\" class=\"broken_link\">Franklin Park Public Library<\/a> in Illinois was featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/article\/CA6602836.html\">Library Journal<\/a> last year for its use of Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franklinparklibrary.org\/historical_map\" class=\"broken_link\">local history map<\/a>, but check out the library&#8217;s other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franklinparklibrary.org\/googlemaps\" class=\"broken_link\">maps<\/a> also.<\/p>\n<p>This simple tool helped the library provide users with a visual tour of local history, highlight images from their special collection, and inspire users to interact with the library website via comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Franklin Park Public Library in Illinois was featured in Library Journal last year for its use of Google Maps. I particularly like the local history map, but check out the library&#8217;s other maps also. This simple tool helped the library provide users with a visual tour of local history, highlight images from their special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[233,258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-libraries","category-wednesday-spark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}