Review Essay Draft

Introduction In addition to containing visitor service information (museum hours, directions, public program information) and basic information about the identity of the organization, most museum & historical society web sites include some information about their collections. So far, this information... More

Design

Web Site Design While some nonprofit museum and historical society sites are more interesting than others in content, and some employ flashier multimedia devices i.e. Mount Vernon, many seem to follow a similar web design format (see Monticello.) This includes... More

Narrative

# 3. What is the meaning of the title of Murray’s book? What is Murray’s own narrative? When Janet Murray named her book Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, she was referring to the potential for... More

Review Essay Proposal

For my web review I’d like to comment on various presentations of museum collections through on-line catalogues. I reviewed these back in the mid 1990s when only a handful of museums presented their collections on the Internet and at... More

Website evaluation

National Geographic: Remembering Pearl Harbor (http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/) Created and maintained by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. Reviewed September 17-18, 2004 After reviewing the four recommended sites, I thought I’d choose the Do-History site to evaluate. I was comfortable with... More

Scavenger Hunt

I was not surprised that I was unable to finish the searches within 1/2 hour because often when I am searching for on thing I get side tracked onto reading something fascinating that I come across unexpectedly. Although I deliberately... More

What historians do

Goals of academic historians as well as museum and archive professionals are to explore history, publish or disseminate their findings and teach others. Archivists and museum professionals also have the added responsibility of caring for, preserving and documenting their collections... More