Local Color: A Database of Art on the University of Michigan’s

Campus

Jamie LauschUniversity Library Associate

University of Michigan Art, Architecture and Engineering Library

A Resource for the UM School of Art & Design and Beyond

Inspired by other projects at UM AAEL

At first, I was very ambitious…

The project eventually involved units across the UM Campus

I began adding images, focusing on tags identifying medium

I referenced established vocabularies when assigning tags

Each entry looks like this:

We are using Mlibrary Flickr settings, but these can easily be adjusted

The ultimate goal is to prepare the project for its new owners

Local Color: A Database of Art on the University of Michigan’s

Campus

Jamie LauschUniversity Library Associate

University of Michigan Art, Architecture and Engineering Library