Museums and the Web

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e-Books and Museum Publishing

Type: 
Session
Date & Time: 
Apr 7 2011 - 11:00am
Location: 
Commonwealth A/B

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

Kindle, i-Pad and beyond.  The printed book is not the only way books are delivered and books are not the be-all and end-all of publishing.

But where are museums in this revolution? Can we re-imagine our publications as e-books? What do we need to put in place to do that?

E-Books for Museums: How to Make Them, and Why You Should

Keywords: 
E-Books
Keywords: 
publishing
Keywords: 
Reading
Keywords: 
EPUB
Keywords: 
DIY
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How-to
Abstract: 

Holding decades worth of exhibition catalogs, member journals, symposium papers, and historical records, museums go beyond being repositories of objects – they are also repositories of knowledge about objects and their related fields.

Type: 
Workshop - full or half day
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