Q: What do you hope visitors will learn by visiting the digital public history exhibit you created?
A: When visitors click on the digital public history exhibit for the Cortland 1919 fire, something that my group members and I created together, my hope is that they get something out of it that a museum or simple google search couldn’t give them on the topic. Whether it be a newspaper clipping, microfilm picture, or photograph from the SUNY Cortland library they’ve never seen before, I hope visitors experience or even learn something new when they enter the digital exhibit.
I also hope visitors can appreciate the existence of digital public history exhibits as a whole, as they experience mine. The instantaneous availability of information at their fingertips, thanks to the digital nature of the exhibit, is unlike any museum-esque archive of the past. We are living in the future, for sure.
-Sarah DeLena