BiblioBoard Creator Case studies

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1 BiblioBoard Creator Case studies BiblioBoard Creator is the best digital collections publishing tool ever created. Create mobile applications with special collections; promote local authors, artists and musicians; develop multimedia outreach materials; provide a virtual makerspace; or deliver content licensed directly from authors and publishers. Libraries can publish all types of media on the web and in elegant native apps simply and easily.

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3 Medford Public library { Library } Established as a city in 1892, Medford is one of the oldest settlements in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Over time, many notable pieces of public art were created and displayed throughout Medford to help tell the story of the city. Medford Public Library sought a way to preserve this art within context, while also introducing it to younger generations. The Library used BiblioBoard Creator to develop a mobile collection of Medford Public Art. The collection includes WPA paintings and murals, monuments, Native Medford history and a collection of pictures, documents and other ephemera about Amelia Earhart, who lived and worked in the city in her 20s. Now, Medford residents and visitors can enjoy the rich history of the city s art scene at any time, thanks to the local library. Turner Free Library: Yearbooks { Library } The Turner Free Library, in Randolph, libraries in the state. Today, the library is a vibrant community center, offering programs for all ages, large movie and music collections, a new teen area and a dynamic children s room. The Library had access to every Randolph High School yearbook from and wanted to provide a fun, historical resource for the community. Curators uploaded the digitized yearbooks to BiblioBoard Creator. With Creator, the library was able to organize the content by decade, making for an entertaining web and mobile reference, as well as for a historic view on developing clothing and yearbook design styles for all students past and present.

4 Benjamin timpson { Curator } Benjamin Timpson is a contemporary artist living in Bloomington, IN. Although a classically trained painter, Timpson made a splash by creating art from found and human hair. glass slides and then blown up onto canvases is hard to portray in merely imagery alone. Timpson wanted to provide insight into his process, as well as make his work discoverable to a larger audience. Using BiblioBoard Creator, Timpson collected videos, images and articles depicting his unique creative process and organized them into a dark and hauntingly beautiful Anthology. Benjamin Timpson: An Artist s Vision is now freely available to all BiblioBoard subscribers via the BiblioBoard Access Module. Halsey Institute { Museum } The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art is administered by the School of the Arts at the College of Charleston. They exist to advocate, exhibit and interpret visual art, with an emphasis on contemporary art. The Halsey worried that they did not have the time or resources to create rich mobile apps for all devices. But, they understood the importance of reaching tablet their content into libraries. Utilizing BiblioBoard Creator, they were able to quickly produce a visually evocative Anthology of their Rebound: Dissections and Excavations in Book Art exhibition. They were able to release the Anthology in time for the opening reception of their featured exhibition at Spoleto Festival USA. In the Anthology, they could provide biographical information, as well as additional pieces of art that were not included in the curated show. With the help of BiblioBoard, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art s exhibition is now mobile and freely available around the world to national, academic and public libraries.

5 Southern Food and Beverage Museum { Museum } The Southern Food and Beverage Museum dedicated to the discovery, understanding and celebration of the food, drink and the has a small but excellent collection of digital of their collection. The Museum lacked a development budget to be able to tell their story on the ipad and other devices. They wanted a way to reach more people with their content and mission. By using BiblioBoard Creator, they were able to create a compelling Anthology about the history of New Orleans cuisine to release at the 2013 American Historical Association Conference. Through the use of BiblioBoard, the Southern Food and Beverage Museum is now able to reach thousands of public libraries and universities with their content. Randolph, MA: Town Reports { Library } The Turner Free Library, in Randolph, libraries in the state. Today, the library is a vibrant community center, offering programs for all ages, large movie and music collections, a new teen area and a dynamic children s room. The Library had access to a large portion of the Randolph Town Reports, covering municipal department activities and records of Town Meetings and wanted to create a lasting, digital chronicle of the city s history. Curators built a BiblioBoard collection of Town Reports from The Reports were sorted by year and are now perpetually available via the web, smartphones and major tablet devices.

6 Graphic Novels in Public Libraries { Library } The comics and graphic novels category has become one of the fastest growing in the library world, and public libraries called for this high-demand, digital content for their patrons. Most old-guard digital platforms restricted patron access to content, offered a disjointed user-experience, and sold content in bulk at an exorbitant price. BiblioBoard features an unlimited, multi-user access model and a user-friendly design, allowing public libraries to provide commercially licensed content on an intuitive platform. Libraries can negotiate directly with publishers or choose from the highly affordable packages offered by BiblioLabs.

7 Increased Access Options We give you world-class distribution to your own constituents and community while adding the ability to create cost-recovery by distributing to thousands of public, academic and K-12 libraries across the world. in a time of budget strains, this cost-recovery stream recognizes that delivering digital content in a compelling way and continuing to adapt to the quickly changing mobile market has real costs. For more traditional universal open access options, we can work to meet your needs. Native Tablet Apps using biblioboard is the easiest and most cost-effective way to have your own native apps without developers or development cost. in just hours, your archives can be available via the web, ipad, nexus, Kindle and Galaxy. Pretending that a web browser on a tablet does as good a job as a native app is not a longterm strategy. Partnering with an award-winning technology company to create a world-class app presentation is a smart alternative. Cost-Effective Future-Proofing the pace of change in the web and mobile interface world is breakneck and getting faster all the time. We do the hard work of adapting to the ever-changing mobile interface requirements for various devices and operating systems. We future-proof the presentation of your content and ensure it will look great into the future. Your team can focus on content, while we focus on technology.

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