Jelena Jovin
Biblioteka Matice srpske, Novi Sad
jovinj@bms.ns.ac.rs

doi: 10.19090/cit.2020.37.93-102
No. 37 (November 2020), p. 83-102

Reading as a Motif on Posters from the End of the 19th Century
in the New York Public Library Digital Collections

Summary

In the era of digitalization, an increasing amount of material is becoming available to the users of the Web. Accordingly, for the purpose of collecting material for exhibitions, preparing lectures, researching the history of a nation or the life of a particular painter, writing a blog or posting a tweet, the necessary illustrations, photographs or manuscripts can be found on portals such as Europeana, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and many others. This paper aims to present the process of searching for material related to the selected topic, i.e. reading as a motif on the posters in the New York Public Library Digital Collections, given that the part of the digitized material is in public domain. In addition to the numerous possibilities of using and sharing material for users of the portal, the searching process difficulties were also pointed out. The purpose of the paper is to bring the functioning of a portal with digitized material closer to readers from the point of view of librarians as users, to point out the problems of the processing, visibility, and accessibility of this material, as well as to encourage librarians to come up with ideas and solutions for creating more attractive, coherent, and user-friendly portals.

Keywords:

New York Public Library (NYPL), portal, digitized material, public availability, search, poster, reading, classification, metadata, sharing, transparency, user-friendliness

Submitted: 18th September 2020
Correction to the manuscript: 17th October 2020
Accepted for publication: 22th October 2020

Reading as a Motif on Posters from the End of the 19th Century in the New York Public Library Digital Collections by Jelena Jovin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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