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An email from the British Library exhorting me to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Email from British Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So I did. And what did I find?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A dullish page<\/a>, but with hopefully many delights hidden in the links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I began with an exploration of the architecture, which was just a bit of text with a few images. And, much to my delight a whopping typo when referring to the wrong Gilbert Scott as inspiration to the architect, Colin St John Wilson. 4 out of 10, I fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then took a safe bet to look at the Virtual Books. I have long admired the ability to look through the books in the Treasures Gallery in digital form – mostly looking at the Lindisfarne Gospel, Leonardo Da Vinca, and Alice. So, I clicked the link, to another surprisingly dull page with only 6 books to excite. But I knew there must be more, and to the top right was a link to ‘View All<\/a>‘. Clicking this revealed some of the wonders of the world of books; from a Ethiopian Bible, to Lewis Carroll’s handwritten Alice’s Adventures Underground to works by Jane Austen. Each one in blazing colour and which the visitor can zoom in on and thumb through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beautiful and I chose a Psalter that is annotated by Henry VIII’s himself. Wow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Virtual Henry
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Why, I wonder, do the British Library make so little of it? I only got to it as i knew that had it. Most would pass by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gets a 10 out of 10 for awe-inspiring content, and a 3 for hiding its light under a bushel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, I was excited to see a exhortation to ‘Visit an Online Exhibition.<\/a>‘ This was what I had come here for. Really, excited. When I got there, there were 44! I was really looking forward to this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But they were not exhibitions, they were a series of articles and blog posts. All very interesting, and all illustrated with lots of images of beautiful objects. But in no-way an online exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So very disappointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, the British Library web site has some absolutely marvellous stuff. But its not really digital, its just online. There is no feeling of a digital experience, digital content yes, a digital experience. no. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should be a 10 out of 10, and it is for content but for a digital experience, I’m hard pressed to give it a 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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