The ARLIS/ Ohio Valley group met last Friday, Oct. 3, 2003 at the Cincinnati
Museum of Art -- we had a good attendance of 29 people !
The agenda included a demonstration of OCLC's CONTENTdm --
http://contentdm.com/
which can be used in a variety of ways, such as digitizing special
collections documents, slides, photographs, newsletters, etc. -- it catalogs
the item with information and metadata as well as an option to create
presentations by using its "Add to My Favorites View My Favorites" when
viewing an image -- items can also be directly ordered from that institution
refer to the Cleveland State University Library's Cleveland Memory website
that has a collection of architecture slides by historian, Clay Herrick at
http://www.clevelandmemory.org/herrick/ browse the images and "Add to My
Favorites" after selecting several images, then "View My Favorites" and
you have an automatic presentation of images you could use for a
presentation for download onto a cd or zip disc
The members also discussed how CONTENTdm could possibly be used to create a
national Artists' File that many institutions have tucked away in a file
cabinet -- this idea will be referred to the national committe looking into
this at present
Another discussion related to lobbying for ARTstor through the OhioLINK
consortia -- this discussion stemmed from the Kodak announcement pertaining
to discontinuing the manufacture of slide equipment as of June 2004
We also heard a presentation by Dr. Dietrich from Miami U of Ohio about
contemporary Islamic women artists -- and the day concluded with a great
tour of the new Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Museum --
Pam Eyerdam, Chair of Ohio Valley and Head of Reference, Art Librarian at
Cleveland State University
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