The University Library has recently added the Hancock Memorial Museum to its areas of responsibility. One way of using this Museum for educational purposes is to provide a virtual tour of the Museum or parts of its collection. Although other Museums, and Libraries, have mounted virtual tours, it would be useful to have an easy template to provide guidance in preparing a virtual tour. All these, and others, are questions to be explored through the set up of a prototype virtual tour of the Hancock Memorial Museum. Many business schools provide a listing of faculty working papers on their web sites, but currently these vary from full-text of selected papers to simple title listings.
Some faculty make their working papers accessible from their personal web pages.
Producing these papers and making them available to the scholarly community using traditional print methods has been an expensive, time-consuming proposition for the academic community. They are, however, a very important resource which demonstrates the academic work of the faculty. Within USCs Marshall School of Business, the Finance and Business Economics Department has begun serious discussion about a web-based system for managing and delivering working papers. Representatives from the department will be available for discussions with the student team. We would like these papers to be accessible from departmental web sites as well as being included in a combined database.