Please excuse cross postings. Norine Duncan
Dear Colleagues -
The Brown University Library was recently awarded a Collaborative
Planning Grant by the Institute of Library and Museum Services for the
purpose of working with the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of
Design and the RISD Library to develop a new database architecture for
the Gorham Company Archive. The digital collection will draw upon
collections of Gorham silverware held by museums around the world. The
proposed database will allow libraries and museums to share knowledge
concerning the Gorham Manufacturing Company and its products in a way
that will link together collections of archival documents, design
drawings and museum objects. Further information about the project can
be found at
http://blogs.brown.edu/project/libnews/archives/2007/10/gorham_collecti.
html
At this early phase, we would like to solicit feedback from museum
curators, art historians and other professionals as to the structure of
the database we are about to design. We have mounted a brief survey for
this purpose at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=y7CABn9goDWwgCRoHUMvgA_3d_3d
<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=y7CABn9goDWwgCRoHUMvgA_3d_3d> .
We would be very grateful if you would take a few minutes to
complete the survey. We are collecting data from November 15 through
November 30, 2007.
Thank you in advance for your help. We are certain that your
feedback will be very useful to us as the project proceeds.
Sincerely yours,
Holly Snyder
Project Coordinator
Holly Snyder, Ph.D.
North American History Librarian
John Hay Library/Box A
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
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