Our Project So Far

Hello everyone! Kelsey and I have been working on our project for a couple of weeks now. So far Kelsey has given me a tour of the print department and showed me all the cool things in the stacks including Donald Trump’s hair ; ) We have gone through the inventory excel sheets and determined what information is being captured and what needs to be changed to the webpage that Benoit created for us. We made suggestions and notes on changes we thought could be done. After receiving additional suggestions by Martha on updates and clarification on things we have gone over the webpage a few more times. Below is what we hope to accomplish next.

Next up we are going to go through CCO and RBMS for controlled vocabulary in our drop-down menus. We would like to meet with Martha again to ask a few more questions and possibly set up a time to meet with Benoit as well. As we continue to work on this webpage we are going to highlight what sections are needed for each stage of this project. For example, Martha informed us that the “Materials and Techniques” section is needed for the cataloging portion of this project. After we are done looking at the webpage, we will further our search into ARTstor and Shared Shelf. We are hoping to start our 30 day trial with Shared Shelf soon so that we can test it out ourselves. Throughout all of this we are also going to look for articles about both ARTstor and Shared Shelf to see if we can learn even more about other experiences with them.