Like with other types of projects described in this guide, your first step in creating a digital exhibit should be to gather and organize content you will be using. Content for digital exhibits looks different than data for other types of digital scholarship projects, though. While you may find materials to use for a digital exhibit in open access digital collections from libraries, museums, and other institutions, not everything you may want to use will be online.
While digital collections are a fantastic resource, they usually only represent a small fraction of a library or museum's collection. As with other historical projects, constructing a digital exhibit can often mean locating physical collections relevant to your topic, visiting archives, and conducting archival research. Please note that while many archives can accommodate requests to digitize materials, such capacity is often limited and can take time.
Some digital collections and repositories of open-access already-digitized materials can be found below.
Digital Collections and Exhibits by 
Framing Privacy in Digital Collections with Ethical Decision Making by 
Metadata for Digital Collections by The library's collections and services are available to all ISU students, faculty, and staff and Parks Library is open to the public.
