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Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
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| Martin R. Kalfatovic |
| Item Number: 978-0-8389-0817-4 |
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| Publisher: ALA Editions |
| Price: $45.00 |
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136 pages
8.5" x 11"
Softcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-8389-0817-4
Year Published: 2002
It's no secret that well-executed exhibits in libraries and museums can make attendance numbers skyrocket. Dynamic exhibits not only provide information and entertainment for your existing customers, but they are also opportunities to reach out to new customers and to widen your market. A great exhibit can be the hook that brings people in the door for the first time.
Creating a Winning Online Exhibition will help you to do just that—conceive, design, and execute a compelling online exhibition. Different than a digital collection, an online exhibition is a selective presentation of objects organized around a thematic and narrative structure. Digital librarian Martin Kalfatovic takes you through the process of developing an exhibit that will attract users, increase your visibility, and showcase your collection and services. With case studies of successful online exhibitions, sample artwork and screen shots, up-to-date information on mark-up languages such as HTML and XML, and discussion of online databases and software programs, you will be equipped with all you need to pull off a winning exhibition. Also included are helpful samples of:- Project proposals
- Exhibition scripts
- Time lines
- Database structures and guidelines
- Tips on working with outside contractors
Online exhibitions are ideal for collections of manuscripts, handwritten documents, and other materials that might be limited if displayed in traditional ways. This comprehensive guide provides the ?how-to?s? for selecting materials, developing an overarching theme, and creating a narrative presentation that goes beyond the traditional to deliver a winning exhibition.
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Foreword by S. Diane Shaw
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Online Exhibitions versus Digital Collections
Chapter 2: The Idea
Chapter 3: Executing the Exhibition Idea
Chapter 4: The Staff
Chapter 5: Technical Issues: Digitizing
Chapter 6: Technical Issues: Markup Languages
Chapter 7: Technical Issues: Programming, Scripting, Databases, and Accessibility
Chapter 8: Design
Chapter 9: Online Exhibitions: Case Studies and Awards
Chapter 10: Conclusion: Online with the Show!
Appendices:
A Sample Online Exhibition Proposal
B Sample Exhibition Script
C Guidelines for Reproducing Works from Exhibition Websites
D Suggested Database Structure for Online Exhibitions
E Timeline for Contracted Online Exhibitions
F Dublin Core Metadata of an Online Exhibition
G The Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Awards
H Bibliography of Exhibitions (Gallery and Virtual)
Index
About the Author
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Digital Projects Librarian at Smithsonian Institution Libraries where he oversees digitization projects including online exhibitions and digital collections. He is an adjunct faculty member at the School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America where he teaches library automation and art and museum librarianship. Former editor of the LITA (Library Information Technology Association) Newsletter, he is a contributor to Information Imagineering and the author of Nile Notes of a Howadji and The Fine Arts Projects of the New Deal. Kalfatovic received his master?s degree in library science from the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
Reviews
"...well organized...offer insightful techniques and relevant examples.”
—Portal
“It offers advice on selecting materials, developing a theme, and creating a narrative presentation, while keeping in mind broader goals like attracting users, increasing visibility, and showcasing the collection.”
—Reference & Research Book News
“...offers excellent advice on how to develop, create, and launch a successful online presentation that showcases a special collection.”
—C&RL News
“Those working on an online exhibit will find this book indispensable. It covers every aspect of putting together, as the title says, a winning exhibit... [A] must-have for any library considering exhibiting a special collection or archival items on the web.”
—Shy Librarian
“What better way to learn than from guided examples, and this book provides many examples to follow for creating quality online exhibitions.”
—ONLINE Magazine
“...offers easy-to-follow, sound advice with logical progressive steps to walk the intrepid curator through the exhibition process.”
— Technicalities
“...invaluable and excellent...this is the definitive work, to date, on this subject. Bravo to ALA and Kalfatovic!”
— Catholic Library World |
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