1. Virtual Exhibits
on a Small Budget
NHAG - September 2012
Bobbi Lee Slossar

2. Why digital exhibits?

3. Why digital exhibits?
Bring history to the people

4. Why digital exhibits?
Bring history to the people
Protect the materials from being handled

6. Examples

7. Chicago Public Library ContentDM

8. Viewing documents ContentDM

9. ContentDM

10. What they have...
...that you might not have.

11. What they have...
...that you might not have.
Money!

12. Free is great...

14. More Examples

15. Omeka

16. Omeka

17. Sites Using Omeka

18. What they might
have...
Staff with tech skills

21. Beware of
“Free...”

22. ...unless it’s free
& easy!

24. Low-budget
Examples

25. Flickr

26. Blogger

27. Considerations

28. Considerations
Evaluate your collection

29. Considerations
Evaluate your collection
Think of your audience

30. Considerations
Evaluate your collection
Think of your audience
Who will be doing the work?

31. Elements
The collection must:
Be organized by category/tag
Include information about the scope of the
materials
Include information about the institution

32. Salisbury NH
History Site

33. Resources
Expensive digital library software: Content
DM
Free software that requires some tech skills/
staff: WordPress.org, Omeka
Free software that requires very little setup:
WordPress.com, Blogger

34. Resources
Custom domain name: approximately $15/
year
Self-hosted website (WordPress.org, Omeka):
approximately $120/year
Additional storage space on hosted website
(WordPress.com, Blogger): $2.49/month and
up (25 GB)

35. Software Resources
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software:
$100 and up (Abbyy)
Online editing software to crop images: Free
(Picmonkey.com)

36. I Recommend:
Choosing a small, interesting collection
Discussing image sharing policy
Scanning the items
Backing up the images

37. I recommend...
Starting easy
Selecting a hosted website, like Blogger (you
can always move your content later)
Keeping your images backed up in a variety of
ways (USB hard drives, online storage
accounts)

38. Contact:
Bobbi Lee Slossar
Technology Resources Librarian
New Hampshire State Library
BobbiLee.Slossar@dcr.nh.gov