‘Found in the belly of a cod-fish’ Promoting Special Collections On-line
Not about fish guts • Unlikely things in unlikely places • Lots of small collections in Cambridge, in smaller libraries without huge amounts of resources • Ideas for publicizing special collections on-line • Getting information on special collections on-line • Not being intimidated by Web-stuff - part of an overall promotional strategy
Why bother? • Uniqueness of special collections • Raising your profile, internally & externally • Materials for fund-raising & promotion • Conservation • More you put in the more you get out in terms of help & support
Why bother? 2
What to do? 1 • • General introduction & highlights 1, 2 Featured book 3, 4 Exhibitions 5, 6 Collections 7
What to do? 2 • • Subjects 8 Timeline 9, 10, 11 Educational Resources 12, 13 Galleries, Indexes & Databases 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
What you need? • Interest in your collection • Some sort of survey 1 • Some way of obtaining & processing pictures • Some way of getting things on to the Web
Think about your audience What are you doing with you web-pages? – Promotion & Awareness? – Education? – Research Tool?
Selecting things • Historical importance of material • Photogenic qualities • Uniqueness – copyspecific features rather 1 than content • Relevance to organization • Topicality
Getting hold of images • • • Buy a camera Borrow someone else’s camera Use pre-existing pictures Get other people to take pictures for you Photo-editing software – Adobe Photoshop
Getting it up • Computing support • Doing it yourself 1. CMS 1, 2 • Doing it yourself 2. HTML • Web 2. 0
HTML <h 1>Manuscripts</h 1> <img alt=“Detail from the Epistles of Othea showing Othea pointing to a clock“ src="http: //www. joh. cam. ac. uk/cms_misc/images/library/H. 5, _f. 5 r 2. jpg" /> <p>The Library's special collections … Special Collections Librarian (tel. 01223 339393). </p> <h 3><a href="http: //www. joh. cam. ac. uk/library/special_collections/manuscripts/mediev al_manuscripts/">Medieval Manuscripts</a></h 3> <p>M. R. James's Descriptive Catalogue of … during the Library's opening hours. </p> <h 3><a href="http: //www. joh. cam. ac. uk/library/special_collections/manuscripts/post_m edieval/">Post-Medieval Manuscripts</a> …</h 3> <p>In completing his catalogue … on this website. </p> <p><em>The College is greatly indebted to Mr N. J. R. James and Cambridge University Press for their permission to publish James's work in this new form. </em></p> <h 3><a href="http: //www. joh. cam. ac. uk/library/special_collections/manuscripts/oriental _manuscripts/">Oriental Manuscripts and Papyrus Fragments</a></h 3> <p>The Library's collections include … and Holger Kockelmann. </p>
Issues • Archiving • Metadata • Conservation • Security • Copyright 1, 2
Fin Stewart Tiley, Academic Services Librarian, St John’s College, Cambridge. sdt 26@cam. ac. uk Tel. 01223 338662
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