Message-Id: <mailto:199502070000.SAA27687@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 17:02:57 -0800 From: Jennifer Cox <mailto:jlcox@BIRD.LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU> Subject: WWW Server Development in Libraries To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
There is a new Web exhibit from the University of Arizona Library
that might provide imagelib readers with a topic for discussion. It falls
into Imagelib's goals of 1. Accessing, retrieving, and displaying images
from the Internet and 2. Creating local image databases: scanning
photographic and slide collections of scholarly value or regional
significance.
The UAL Library Information Systems team is encouraging other units
in the Library to participate in developing the Web server. We hosted a
two-day open house where we put all our team information on the Web. This
gave us a chance to demonstrate and discuss the Web with other Library staff.
We invited anyone who might be interested in putting resources on the
server to work with us. We have identified groups interested in putting manuals on
the server for in-house use (in Libraries we consider this a form of document
delivery) and I am working with our branch libraries to use the Web to
announce information about their collections and resources.
Our new exhibit consists of 15 photographs selected from the
University of Arizona Photographic Archives which is housed in the Special
Collections Department. The URL is
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/spc/uaphoto.html . The purpose of
the exhibit is to demonstrate how the Web can be used to highlight and
advertise unique resources in the Library's collections. We're hoping this
"personal touch" approach will pique the interest of our archivists,
curators and librarians.
If others on the list are working within their Library to
encourage "buy-in" and participation in developing Web exhibits, would
you post a message with your experiences, ideas, suggestions, ...? I
would appreciate learning about the experiences others working in
libraries are having.
JLC