The online exhibition project requires that I forge partnerships with people all across the Butler University campus. We are combing the archives to select items for digitization and use to tell the stories of these influential figures. I am working with the scholarly communication librarians and their student assistants to build a cutting edge exhibition using Omeka software. The exhibit will have a vibrant, accessible splash page that will allow visitors to explore the exhibit in a variety of ways, as well as explore the archive of digitized images. We have found inspiration for this exhibit in looking at the bicentennial statehood web sites created by other states such as Alabama and Missouri. We hope to launch this online exhibit by the end of July 2016.

My work with this exhibition is intended to lay the  foundation for additional, regular online exhibits that will highlight fascinating, but perhaps less well-known items in Irwin Library’s Special Collections. There are many interesting and useful models for such a program available on the internet. I have found a great deal of inspiration in the exhibits at the University of Michigan Library web site.