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Marcie summarized the question brought up in the last meeting and discussed elsewhere with Eliza. The Eliza explained to the group that the Digital Scholarship Group (DSG) is already working with students and faculty in creating online exhibits. Those sites are hosted on a non-Cornell.edu server. This allows for the possibility of keeping the audience to Cornell only. Additionally, if the student or faculty member wants to keep their content after a certain amount of time, they can use the same host at a low fee. Eliza's group has the explicit mission of this kind of work with students and faculty so it makes sense for non-library related exhibits or class related projects to be directed to that group moving forward.
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Questions from Eveline around expectations of permanence. Mann differentiates between "polished" and "unpolished" even in their physical exhibits. Most of the Spotlight exhibits have been based around work done by Prof. Denise Green. First, in her own exhibits and then last semester as student created exhibits for a class. Denise is well-versed in the system and once given guidelines have she and her students have done much of the work themselves. However, the other student-led exhibit from this semester not related to Denise Green has involved more help from Karl. We all agreed that it was likely new users would need help in setting up the site and adhering to accessibility and copyright guidelines. Mann library has an exhibits team that has handled it in the past and can continue this for CALS and CHE. What about other units?
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There was a question from Emily about whether there was a direct link to physical exhibits as a criteria for Spotlight? The answer was , usually but not always. So that can be one element but cannot be the only criteria.
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Eliza made the point that since this is the library's exhibit's page, therefore the library needs to determine what they want that content to be. There should be some level of curation since it represents the library. Not all faculty should be allowed a Spotlight site and if there is a faculty member who is interested in creating an online exhibit not sponsored by the library they could be sent to the DSG.
In the end, we all agreed that use as class assignment was out of scope for Spolight but that those faculty members could be pointed to DSG. Faculty would be allowed to continue to use Spotlight. Initial criteria are: link to physical exhibit using library materials or online exhibit initiated/sponsored by the library.
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