Morning Presentation and discussion 10:00am - 11:00am
In an effort to expand the library’s reach outside of traditional, Cornell University’s Rare and Manuscript Collections Library decided to join the Flickr Commons, which allows cultural instructions to showcase digital images and gather comments from users. This presentation will review findings on the differences and similarities of image use and access in Flickr and in Cornell’s LUNA Insight account.
In an effort to expand the library’s reach outside of traditional, Cornell University’s Rare and Manuscript Collections Library decided to join the Flickr Commons, which allows cultural instructions to showcase digital images and gather comments from users. This presentation will review findings on the differences and similarities of image use and access in Flickr and in Cornell’s LUNA Insight account.
Poster (held during morning coffee)
Live in the Archive is a poster which reviews current and proposed methodologies, both digital and analog, for archival documentation of performative art such as theater, dance, and musical performances and body art, conceptual work and performance pieces.
Biography
Katie O’Connell recently graduated from Syracuse University with her MLIS and Certificate of Advanced Study in Digital Libraries. She’s interested in visual resources, archival documentation of artworks, and contemporary art libraries. Currently, she’s spending the summer working as the Special Projects Assistant at the Central New York Library Resources Council, where she’s running and writing a grant proposal for a patron-created video contest. When that position concludes in September she’ll be moving to New York City, where she hopes to work in an academic art library.
