"The Future Depends on What You Do Today"

“The future depends on what you do today.”

Mahatma Gandhi

OpenAthens Meeting  My boss invited me to an OpenAthens introduction meeting. We officially “kicked off” OpenAthens in October and they just wanted to touch base, get a few answers from us to some questions, and make sure that we didn’t have any questions. Right now, the ball seems to be in their court so we’re just waiting. 

Rare Book Virtual Exhibit Meeting This week my boss, my co-worker, and I met for a follow-up meeting regarding the virtual rare book exhibit. I created a PDF presentation with the information and photos so that my boss and my co-worker could give input. I’ve learned from other design projects that communication is key. I’ve put 100% into a project only to have to redo all the work because the client didn’t like a certain aspect. Nothing wrong with that, I just learned how important it is to have that feedback throughout the process so that all of my energy isn’t expended on something that won’t get the green light. 

For this project, it was decided that the PDF presentation probably wasn’t the best platform. Though it could look very nice and be very informative, we want staff to interact with the presentation - clicking, gallery viewing, etc. - and the presentation just didn’t contain enough of those movements. 

So, we decided that a website would be better. I had already started creating a template for the website because I also thought it would be a better way to go so I continued working on it to get a demo together. 

LibGuides Webinar - How to Create an Art Gallery In fortuitous timing, LibGuides had a webinar on How to Create an Art Gallery. I didn’t want to create the rare book virtual exhibit in a LibGuides but I did want to see how to do it, as well as to get ideas on what a gallery in LibGuides might look like.

Well, the process was so easy! And they look really good. Though I don’t plan on using it for the virtual rare book exhibit, it’s nice to know that if we ever need to create a gallery asap, there’s always the LibGuides option.