1. Brooklyn College Library's Online Art Catalog: Art on the Wall Goes Digital Jill Cirasella

2. or: From Art on the Wall to Something for All: How the Brooklyn College Library Described, Digitized & Database-ized Its World-Class Art Collection...and Marketed It All in a Way That Engaged Students, Inspired Creativity & Built Relationships with Other Faculty

3. In the Beginning... Where did the art come from? "Percent for Art" Law Works in Storage Gifts

4. What We Initially Wanted... Modest Goal: Museum-Style Wall Text

5. What We Realized We Wanted... Less Modest Goal: A Whole Museum-Like Experience 1.Wall text 2.Online catalog 3.Audio tour

6. Who Would Do the Work? 1.Wall text: art librarian & me 2.Online catalog: library's web programmer 3.Audio tour: Antenna Audio? Acoustiguide? BC Library?

7. MoMA's Online Catalog

8. The Sincerest Form of Flattery...

9. Actually a Spin-Off Of... WIMS (Web Information Management System): a homegrown system for generating library subject pages, etc.

10. Some Details about the Art Collection Management System User Interface: publicly browsable art catalog all pages are dynamically generated (created on the fly by the Art Collection Mgmt System) Administrative Module: allows library faculty, staff, and interns to update the art catalog from any computer (almost) no HTML knowledge needed to use it

11. Core Technologies in the Art Collection Management System Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database: serves as a relational database management system PHP: scripting language for retrieving and manipulating data and generating HTML pages for the user interface

12. User Interface: Single Work View

13. Administrative Module: Editing

14. Audio Tour In-House or Contract It Out? Our text: same as wall/catalog text Our voice talent: BC speech professor Our recording/editing skills: AIT staff Our playback equipment: cheap MP3 players

15. Enhancing the Catalog 1.Audio clips 2.Links to related websites 3.Links to books in library catalog 4.Keyword search 5.Online comment book Where is the catalog? http://dewey.brooklyn.cuny.edu/library/art/

16. Publicizing the Art & the Catalog Student Art Contest with $500 Prize: "Discover the Museum Inside the Library"