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‘ Found in the belly of a cod-fish ’ Promoting Special Collections On-line

‘ 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

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‘ Found in the belly of a cod-fish ’ Promoting Special Collections On-line

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  1. ‘Found in the belly of a cod-fish’Promoting Special Collections On-line

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Why bother? 2

  5. What to do? 1 • General introduction & highlights1, 2 • Featured book3, 4 • Exhibitions5, 6 • Collections7

  6. What to do? 2 • Subjects8 • Timeline9, 10, 11 • Educational Resources12, 13 • Galleries, Indexes & Databases14, 15, 16, 17, 18

  7. What you need? • Interest in your collection • Some sort of survey1 • Some way of obtaining & processing pictures • Some way of getting things on to the Web

  8. Think about your audience What are you doing with you web-pages? • Promotion & Awareness? • Education? • Research Tool?

  9. Selecting things • Historical importance of material • Photogenic qualities • Uniqueness – copy-specific features rather1 than content • Relevance to organization • Topicality

  10. 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

  11. Getting it up • Computing support • Doing it yourself 1. CMS1, 2 • Doing it yourself 2. HTML • Web 2.0

  12. HTML <h1>Manuscripts</h1> <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.5r2.jpg" /> <p>The Library's special collections … Special Collections Librarian (tel. 01223 339393). </p> <h3><a href="http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/manuscripts/medieval_manuscripts/">Medieval Manuscripts</a></h3> <p>M. R. James's Descriptive Catalogue of … during the Library's opening hours. </p> <h3><a href="http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/manuscripts/post_medieval/">Post-Medieval Manuscripts</a> …</h3> <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> <h3><a href="http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/manuscripts/oriental_manuscripts/">Oriental Manuscripts and Papyrus Fragments</a></h3> <p>The Library's collections include … and Holger Kockelmann.</p>

  13. Issues • Archiving • Metadata • Conservation • Security • Copyright1, 2

  14. Fin Stewart Tiley, Academic Services Librarian, St John’s College, Cambridge. sdt26@cam.ac.uk Tel. 01223 338662

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