Connecting people with their communities through proximity‐based digital storytelling

ABSTRACT This visual presentation describes the results of a library‐led initiative involving the use of iBeacon proximity‐based technologies to connect people with their communities. The two libraries involved in this initiative developed and tested an app that pushed community‐based digital stories to users' smartphones and tablets when users were physically near a historic or cultural object (e.g., statue, landmark) about which the digital …