Neither are particularly fit for purpose, but both serve a clear function which I think users would probably expect to be more tightly integrated: 1) Information and news about the exhibition and 2) Digital renditions of the items in the exhibition along with information that is similar to what is in the printed exhibition booklet.
To close this gap, it would seem to me that DPUL-c could stay at dpul.princeton.edu and DPUL-e could run at library.princeton.edu/exhibitions[/exhibit], which could host the information combined from the two types of pages mentioned above.
The only potential challenge I see is that right now we tend to launch the digital exhibition on the day that the physical gallery exhibition opens, whereas the website page is usually up and pushing out information much earlier (e.g., to support advance press releases) but that does not seem insurmountable.
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, I just want to register an idea. With digital exhibitions, we usually wind up with (arguably) two home pages, e.g.: https://library.princeton.edu/goodbooks and https://dpul.princeton.edu/company-of-good-books
Neither are particularly fit for purpose, but both serve a clear function which I think users would probably expect to be more tightly integrated: 1) Information and news about the exhibition and 2) Digital renditions of the items in the exhibition along with information that is similar to what is in the printed exhibition booklet.
To close this gap, it would seem to me that DPUL-c could stay at
dpul.princeton.eduand DPUL-e could run atlibrary.princeton.edu/exhibitions[/exhibit], which could host the information combined from the two types of pages mentioned above.The only potential challenge I see is that right now we tend to launch the digital exhibition on the day that the physical gallery exhibition opens, whereas the website page is usually up and pushing out information much earlier (e.g., to support advance press releases) but that does not seem insurmountable.