LLRC-Gallery’s Archive Windows Updated!

Blog post by Janet DeVries, Library Technician II

Lake Worth Campus

Image Credits: Janet DeVries and Colleen Shaffer

  

 

Our college library on the Lake Worth Campus is home to the Palm Beach State College archives. The Archives room shares space with the Gallery, a place where we host wonderful art shows, interesting history exhibits, lectures by distinguished professors and exciting programs.

The glass windows separating the Gallery from the Archives were plain and unappealing. What if we used the glass windows as a permanent exhibit gallery?

 

 

I approached management with my idea and they asked me to research the logistics. Members of the Society of Florida Archivists provided general information about the process, known as one-way mesh window graphics.

 

We located a local vendor that the college has used for other projects and received an estimate to have the film generated and applied to the windows.
 

 

Once the project received approval, library staff selected four images representing various decades in the college history.

Since the film is one way mesh, Gallery visitors see the permanent exhibit of enlarged vintage images depicting scenes from our college's  illustrious history, and Archive visitors can see out
into the Gallery through the one way window mesh.

The window sign company created the graphics to our specifications and two installers custom hung the film in the windows. The vintage images lend a classy flair to our library Gallery and Archives.

 The completed Archive project!