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Connecting art images and bibliographic data: creating a tool for distance education through collaboration1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Roger Durbin*
Affiliation:
Collection Management, Bierce Library - 1707, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, Ohio, USA
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Abstract

About the only way a small non-profit art museum and its library can hope to create and disseminate information about both its art and bibliographic collections is through collaboration and co-operation. The Akron Art Museum, the University of Akron Libraries, and OhioLink (the state-wide library and multimedia consortium) joined forces to compile the necessary records, images and software to connect information in the museum library’s catalogue to image files, and other biographic and bibliographic databases. Selected portions of the newly created resources are refashioned and merged with web-based lesson plans for use within the museum itself, out in the greater metropolitan area, and wherever Internet-based web resources can reach.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1981

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Footnotes

1.

Expanded version of a paper delivered at the Open Session of the Section of Art Libraries at the 65th IFLA General Conference, in Bangkok, 1999.

References

1. Expanded version of a paper delivered at the Open Session of the Section of Art Libraries at the 65th IFLA General Conference, in Bangkok, 1999.Google Scholar
2. A docent is a volunteer guide who researches exhibitions in order to discuss them with visitors.Google Scholar