NYLA: De-mystifying 2.0 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1. Demystifying & Integrating Web 2.0 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York Library Association November 6, 2008 Jennie Pu , Senior Library Associate Deborah Vincelli , Electronic Resources & Instructional Services Librarian
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3. The Thomas J. Watson Library is the central research library of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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5. The Library also has an extensive collection of subscription electronic resources.
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7. The Library’s Instruction Program focuses on the Museum’s curatorial, conservation and research staff.
8. Patron Perceptions Art History is a discipline that has relied on more traditional print sources.
11. Patron Research Needs Specific, idiosyncratic, and “point of need” Searching for the missing piece of an obscure research puzzle – e.g. provenance research
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14. The Web 2.0 Team Circulation Serials ILL Electronic Resources CJK Acquisitions Library Systems Cataloging Reference Left to right: Lisa Beidel, Erika Hauser, Robyn Fleming, Deborah Vincelli, Renée Watson, Jennie Pu, Angela Washington, Dan Lipcan & John Lindaman.
40. We developed a mantra for our class: “ Content can be public, completely private, or restricted to a select group of colleagues – you decide .” Concern with Privacy
41. We invited our patrons to evaluate information critically regardless of the container … Concern with Quality
42. “ Not all wikis are nightmarish, unvetted entities that exist in the wild … like any other online tool, wikis can be authoritative sources if authored and edited by experts.” (Quote from our class blog)
64. I had heard of some of these tools before but hadn't considered them in a research context. I was especially surprised to see that institutions have begun to start Flickr accounts and blogs.
65. Many of the tools presented could be useful for understanding digital imaging and licensing issues . Photo by Mary Harrsch
