Creating Digital Exhibits for Cultural Institutions: A Guide


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Creating Digital Exhibits for Cultural Institutions will show you how to create digital exhibits and experiences for your users that will be informative, accessible and engaging.

Illustrated with real-world examples of digital exhibits from a range of GLAMs, the book addresses the many analytical aspects and practical considerations involved in the creation of such exhibits. It will support you as you go about: analyzing content to find hidden themes, applying principles from the museum exhibit literature, placing your content within internal and external information ecosystems, selecting exhibit software, and finding ways to recognize and use your own creativity. Demonstrating that an exhibit provides a useful and creative connecting point where your content, your organization, and your audience can meet, the book also demonstrates that such exhibits can provide a way to revisit difficult and painful material in a way that includes frank and enlightened analyses of issues such as racism, colonialism, sexism, class, and LGBTQI+ issues.

Creating Digital Exhibits for Cultural Institutions is an essential resource for librarians, archivists, and other cultural heritage professionals who want to promote their institution's digital content to the widest possible audience. Academics and students working in the fields of library and information science, museum studies and digital humanities will also find much to interest them within the pages of this book.



Author: Emily Marsh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/28/2023
Pages: 194
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781032294162
ISBN10: 1032294167
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Library & Information Science | Archives & Special Libraries
- Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions | General
- Art | Museum Studies

About the Author

Emily Marsh is a Digital Projects Librarian at the National Agricultural Library (USDA). She holds a MLS and doctorate in library science and has been trained in principles of user needs assessment, interface design, information architecture principles, and usability. She has created multiple digital exhibits and assorted projects in the agricultural digital humanities including those focused on the poet Robert Frost, the agricultural scientist George Washington Carver, the USDA Bureau of Home Economics, and the Local Food movement, among others.

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