assignment tips don't assume
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Assignment Tips
• Don’t assume; document your findings• Watch jargon• Be specific• What sets yours apart • Exceed requirements• It’s a research paper; content & style
– http://lib.trinity.edu/research/citing/APAcitationstyle.pdf– http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
Goal
• Create virtual exhibit of interest to citizens of City of St. Louis
– Present inviting, intriguing options – Keep people clicking – Ability to move laterally, not hierarchically
Why
• Uncover rich collections • Provide enhanced virtual experience• Introduce more people to St. Louis Public
Library• Create link between the virtual and physical
Getting going
• Staff chosen -- work together• Materials selected -- interest, variety, value,
condition– photos, stereographs, postcards– maps, brochures, tickets– copyright
We move along
• Materials scanned– Outside vendor -- RFP/contract; going with the
materials, quality control
• Records created -- (For Exhibit this takes the time)
– some information about the artifact BUT– importance of interesting stories about subject
of the image -- not an archive
• Themes evolve along with the stories to illustrate & interpret
Words meet pictures
• Design firm hired -- RFP/contract (keep control)--reusability
• Communicating the vision
Finishing touches
• Revise, revise, revise
• Dublin Core compliant
Spreading the word
• Tell (and show) the staff• Bookmarks and banners• Virtually Missouri• Search engines• Interviews• July 4th celebration
We go live
• Celebrating the Louisiana Purchase– http://slpl.org
• Open House -- invite the right people (and yes, they kept clicking)
We get hit
• First 28 days averaged 45 visits per day• More interesting for our goal
– 459 visits 4-14 minutes (54%)– 329 visits 15-60 minutes (39%)– 60 visits over 60 minutes (7%)
May we have permission
• We anticipated, but still are surprised– Local– National– International
May we have permission - Local
• Newspapers (Suburban J & Post-Dispatch)• Sauce Magazine & German Cultural
Newsletter• National Parks Services & Probation Office• Teachers & Library Staff• Local authors -- books too good to miss• Invitation for attorney’s office
May we have permission - National
• ShowMe Missouri (we work a deal) • ABC News, NPR, and Iowa AAA• Scholarship dinner • Authors - University of Nevada- Reno,
Textbooks (Texas)• Lots of reference questions
May we have permission - International
• Center for the Filipino (Britain)• Independent on Sunday (Britain)
Requests in 2008/09
• PBS TV documentary & home DVD• BBC programs• Philippines TV show seeking to raise
cultural awareness• Elementary schoolbook in Norway• College textbooks (US and UK)• Brad Pitt??