Workshop 2: 25 February 2022

Published: 7 February 2022

Exhibiting written heritage in the digital age, and the impact of the pandemic on those exhibitions.

Funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and hosted by Information Studies at the University of Glasgow, the second of three workshops sees presentations from Andrew Prescott (University of Glasgow), Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania), Bob MacLean & Lizzie O’Neil (University of Glasgow), and Neil Curtis (University of Aberdeen) to discuss the landscape of written heritage exhibitions, both physical and digital, and consider what we might learn from the use of digital interactives within the museum sector.

Considering the topic from both pre- and post-pandemic perspectives, and defining "exhibition spaces" very broadly to include various points of access, this workshop series brings together librarians, museum curators, artists, and researchers to discuss the challenges of physical and digital exhibition, and the possibilities of emerging digital technologies for connecting audiences with the written past.

Programme:

14:00: Welcome and Introduction, Dr Johanna Green, Information Studies, University of Glasgow

14:15: Andrew Prescott (University of Glasgow) ‘Exhibition Loans in a Digital Age’

14.30: Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania) 'The Manuscript Exhibition That Never Was. Or Was It?’

14:45: Bob MacLean & Lizzie O’Neil (University of Glasgow) ‘Virtually Uniting University of Glasgow Collections for Teaching and Learning: The Benefits, and Hurdles Overcome’

15:00: Neil Curtis (University of Aberdeen) ‘Click, Collect and Exhibit: Teaching Exhibition Curation in Aberdeen’

15:15-end: Q&A


First published: 7 February 2022