Attendees: Joanna Gadsby, Susan Graham, Emily Hauver, Jodi Hoover, Lindsey Loeper

Available Library exhibit spaces:

1. Gallery

   1. Contact: Emily and Tom

   2. Shows 2 x per semester

2. Reference book display

   1. Contact: Joanna

   2. One shelf outside the Reference offices, one display per month

3. Media display cases

   1. Contact: Jodi

   2. One display case rotates every month, the second every semester

4. Special Collections Reading Room

   1. Contact: Susan

   2. Seven cases rotate on an as needed basis

5. Reference cultural display

   1. Contact: Gergana

   2. 1 case rotates each semester

6. Rotunda

   1. Contact: Tom

   2. Five cases rotate on an as needed basis (several times per semester)

7. Omeka.net

   1. http://umbcarchives.omeka.net/

Gallery shows brainstorming:

• "Persian Visions"

  • Opens January 28 through the end of March

  • Exhibit event will be held Tuesday Feb 19

  • Proposed month for supplementary exhibits: February

  • Special Collections will showcase items from the book and photography collections with Iranian creators or with Iran as the main topic

  • Media and Reference will showcase works by Iranian authors/film makers or on the topic of Iran

  • Emily will provide mailers for the displays and will send Reference a poster to display

  • Mark Durant has an undergraduate student that may be interested and willing in providing summaries or reviews of Iranian films (Media)

• Baltimore Sun photographs

  • Topics could include: photojournalism; the Sun; newspapers in general; Baltimore Sun "alumni" works (David Simon, KAL); maybe alumni of UMBC that have connections to the Sun

  • Exhibit will be sponsored in part by the Sun in celebration of their 175th anniversary

Other possible exhibit topics:

• Solidarity posters

  • From the Polish revolution

  • Artwork, history, and design elements for examination

  • Collection is being processed by a graduate student and Gergana has assisted with interpretation (language, cultural)

• Preservation Week

  • April 21-27, 2013

  • http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/preswk

  • Display could show physical damage that items can get from exhibitions

  • Showcase obsolete media (Betamax)

• Faculty authors event

  • May?

  • Supplemental exhibit topics could be campus authors, film makers, book makers, artists, photographers

• Ted Serios film digitization

  • Show the journey of the Serios films as they travel to Austria for digitization

  • Screen the films

  • Maybe tie in to posting of Eisenbud coll in Digital Collections? Also Omeka exhibit.

• Contact campus departments for partnerships - like Women's Center or Geography partnerships from 2012

• Contact profs teaching exhibits/museum studies focused classes: Richard Mason (ANCS), Preminda Jacob (ART)