RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage
The Osler Library of the History of Medicine, a branch of the McGill University Library in Montre... more The Osler Library of the History of Medicine, a branch of the McGill University Library in Montreal, Quebec, is a research center for the history of medicine and science with significant rare book and archival holdings. As part of an institutional review launched in 2013, the Osler Library decided to look into methods of collections analysis to compile data about its collections and uncover subject strengths among items, enabling the library to better promote and communicate information about holdings to users, plan for growth, and target collections development. Collections assessment initiatives in rare books and special collections represent the coalescing . . .
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage
This article describes the implementation of touch table technology for McGill University Library... more This article describes the implementation of touch table technology for McGill University Library’s special collections. The touch table was used by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine and the Marvin Duchow Music Library to create audiovisual exhibits to accompany traditional exhibition display cases. Each exhibition curator used a different software platform to create his or her touch table experience. This article explores the introduction of what is now a common technology in museums into the library setting and the attendant challenges, such as the need to create attractive and user-friendly experiences with limited resources and programmer time available. In particular, the article explores the library’s choices of software and hardware, providing lessons learned as well as some preliminary recommendations of best practices. It also analyzes the ways in which the touch table has proven to be an excellent addition to the library’s exhibition spaces, including its abilit...
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage, 2018
This article describes the implementation of touch table technology for McGill University Library... more This article describes the implementation of touch table technology for McGill University Library's special collections. The touch table was used by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine and the Marvin Duchow Music Library to create audiovisual exhibits to accompany traditional exhibition display cases. Each exhibition curator used a different software platform to create his or her touch table experience. This article explores the introduction of what is now a common technology in museums into the library setting and the attendant challenges , such as the need to create attractive and user-friendly experiences with limited resources and programmer time available. In particular, the article explores the library's choices of software and hardware, providing lessons learned as well as some preliminary recommendations of best practices. It also analyzes the ways in which the touch table has proven to be an excellent addition to the library's exhibition spaces, including its ability to unite disparate resources from multiple branch libraries, to act as a new point of librarian-faculty collaboration , and to display nontraditional items from library collections, such as recorded musical performances and archival video footage.
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage, 2015
The Osler Library of the History of Medicine, a branch of the McGill University Library in Montre... more The Osler Library of the History of Medicine, a branch of the McGill University Library in Montreal, Quebec, is a research center for the history of medicine and science with significant rare book and archival holdings. As part of an institutional review launched in 2013, the Osler Library decided to look into methods of collections analysis to compile data about its collections and uncover subject strengths among items, enabling the library to better promote and communicate information about holdings to users, plan for growth, and target collections development.
This article is a virtual tour of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill Universi... more This article is a virtual tour of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University, highlighting items of Jewish interest. We hope that this exercise will give the reader an appreciation of a dimension of the Osler Library that has not previously been explored.
The British Journal for the History of Science, 47 (June 2014): 369-371.
http://journals.cambrid... more The British Journal for the History of Science, 47 (June 2014): 369-371. http://journals.cambridge.org/BJH
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage
The Osler Library of the History of Medicine, a branch of the McGill University Library in Montre... more The Osler Library of the History of Medicine, a branch of the McGill University Library in Montreal, Quebec, is a research center for the history of medicine and science with significant rare book and archival holdings. As part of an institutional review launched in 2013, the Osler Library decided to look into methods of collections analysis to compile data about its collections and uncover subject strengths among items, enabling the library to better promote and communicate information about holdings to users, plan for growth, and target collections development. Collections assessment initiatives in rare books and special collections represent the coalescing . . .
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage
This article describes the implementation of touch table technology for McGill University Library... more This article describes the implementation of touch table technology for McGill University Library’s special collections. The touch table was used by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine and the Marvin Duchow Music Library to create audiovisual exhibits to accompany traditional exhibition display cases. Each exhibition curator used a different software platform to create his or her touch table experience. This article explores the introduction of what is now a common technology in museums into the library setting and the attendant challenges, such as the need to create attractive and user-friendly experiences with limited resources and programmer time available. In particular, the article explores the library’s choices of software and hardware, providing lessons learned as well as some preliminary recommendations of best practices. It also analyzes the ways in which the touch table has proven to be an excellent addition to the library’s exhibition spaces, including its abilit...
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage, 2018
This article describes the implementation of touch table technology for McGill University Library... more This article describes the implementation of touch table technology for McGill University Library's special collections. The touch table was used by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine and the Marvin Duchow Music Library to create audiovisual exhibits to accompany traditional exhibition display cases. Each exhibition curator used a different software platform to create his or her touch table experience. This article explores the introduction of what is now a common technology in museums into the library setting and the attendant challenges , such as the need to create attractive and user-friendly experiences with limited resources and programmer time available. In particular, the article explores the library's choices of software and hardware, providing lessons learned as well as some preliminary recommendations of best practices. It also analyzes the ways in which the touch table has proven to be an excellent addition to the library's exhibition spaces, including its ability to unite disparate resources from multiple branch libraries, to act as a new point of librarian-faculty collaboration , and to display nontraditional items from library collections, such as recorded musical performances and archival video footage.
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage, 2015
The Osler Library of the History of Medicine, a branch of the McGill University Library in Montre... more The Osler Library of the History of Medicine, a branch of the McGill University Library in Montreal, Quebec, is a research center for the history of medicine and science with significant rare book and archival holdings. As part of an institutional review launched in 2013, the Osler Library decided to look into methods of collections analysis to compile data about its collections and uncover subject strengths among items, enabling the library to better promote and communicate information about holdings to users, plan for growth, and target collections development.
This article is a virtual tour of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill Universi... more This article is a virtual tour of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University, highlighting items of Jewish interest. We hope that this exercise will give the reader an appreciation of a dimension of the Osler Library that has not previously been explored.
The British Journal for the History of Science, 47 (June 2014): 369-371.
http://journals.cambrid... more The British Journal for the History of Science, 47 (June 2014): 369-371. http://journals.cambridge.org/BJH
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