The talk focused around the open source Jamaican Art Research Guide created in 2011 and the online exhibit created in Prezi and LibGuide that promoted the resources collected for the caribbean collection while a Association of Research Libraries Career Enhancement Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2013.

1. Work, work, work, work,
work, work:
​Promoting Caribbean Resources on a
Small Budget
Kai Alexis Smith, MSLIS
Cal Poly Pomona
May 22, 2017

2. Petrine Archer-Straw
http://petrinearcher.com/

3. http://www.dloc.com/

4. http://omekasites.northeastern.edu/ECDA/

5. What do they have in common?

6. Technology for a low to no budget?

7. Jamaican Arts Guide
https://jamaicanartresearch.wordpress.com

8. http://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=283260&p=1886849

9. https://prezi.com/fvmsinkiwhyl/project-presentation-association-of
-research-libraries-career-enhancement-program-fellowship-univer
sity-of-michigan/

10. Pros Cons
Wordpress ● Easy to use, themes
available
● Mobile ready
● Option to own domain
● Unpaid version has
wordpress.com
Libguides ● Easy to use
● Mobile ready
● Customize
● Share templates with
other librarian
● Requires institutional
subscription
Prezi ● Recommend tutorial to
learn.
● Customizable
● Motion sickness

11. Thank you!
Kai Alexis Smith
Cal Poly Pomona
Kasmith@cpp.edu

12. Works cited
Archer Straw, Petrine. “| Petrine Archer [.com].” Petrine Archer. Accessed May
11, 2017. http://petrinearcher.com/.
“dLOC Home - Digital Library of the Caribbean.” Accessed May 11, 2017.
http://www.dloc.com/.
“Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA).” Early Caribbean Digital Archive
(ECDA). Accessed May 11, 2017. http://omekasites.northeastern.edu/ECDA/.
“ECDA | About ·.” Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA). Accessed May 11,
2017. http://omekasites.northeastern.edu/ECDA/about.
“Presentation Software | Online Presentation Tools | Prezi.” Prezi.com.
Accessed May 11, 2017. https://prezi.com/.

13. Works cited continued...
Smith. “Project Presentation Association of Research Libraries Career
Enhancement Program Fellowship University of Michigan.” Prezi.com.
Accessed May 11, 2017.
https://prezi.com/fvmsinkiwhyl/project-presentation-association-of-research-l
ibraries-career-enhancement-program-fellowship-university-of-michigan/.
Smith, Kai Alexis. “Research Guides: Caribbean Art and Visual Culture: Fine
Arts Exhibit: Identity and Politics in Caribbean Art.” Accessed May 11, 2017.
http://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=283260&p=1886849.

14. Works cited continued...
Springshare. “LibGuides.” Libguide. Accessed May 11, 2017.
https://www.springshare.com/libguides/.
“Wordpress.” WordPress.com. Accessed May 11, 2017. https://wordpress.com/.

15. Images cited
“Petrine Archer Straw.” Accessed May 12, 2017.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/assets/8965645/dr-petrine.jpg.
PublicDomainPictures / 18043 images. “Money, Finance, Wealth, Currency.”
Pixabay. Accessed May 11, 2017.
https://pixabay.com/en/money-finance-wealth-currency-163502/.