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Readers may find our experience at the Whitworth Art Gallery useful. Last year we started to publish our exhibitions on-line, using our collections management system, KE Emu. We already provided object-based searches on our Collections Catalogue using KE Emu, giving users detailed information on objects including images. This new service provides exhibition-based searches, giving users exhibition descriptions, text panels and labels linked to the objects in the Catalogue. We are in the process of updating our web site so the following links within our site will become out of date in the next few months but for now they provide direct links to the relevant pages. To browse exhibitions: http://www.whitworth.man.ac.uk/coll_brow_exhib.htm To search exhibitions, go to this page then choose Exhibitions Search http://www.whitworth.man.ac.uk/coll_brow_cat.htm We are publishing brief information on about 400 exhibitions dating back to 1958. About 100 of these are from our own collection and these "collection exhibitions" have more extensive information such as descriptions, text panels and labels. An example is "The Dazzled Eye". We have recently catalogued a loan exhibition "Walter Sickert: Drawing is the thing" to see how practical it is to publish certain loan exhibitions. One of the unusual, possibly unique, features with this set up is that the objects are linked to the exhibition in the Catalogue, so the description of the object (artist, title etc) is current rather being taken from the historic information. This is important for objects which for example have changes of attribution, title or creation date. Julian Tomlin Curator (Administration) The Whitworth Art Gallery The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M15 6ER United Kingdom Telephone: + 44 161 275 7450 Direct Line: + 44 161 275 7471 Fax: + 44 161 275 7451 E-mail: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/whitworth