Search

In the era of digitalization, an increasing amount of material is becoming available to the users of the Web. Accordingly, for the purpose of collecting material for exhibitions, preparing lectures, researching the history of a nation or the life of a particular painter, writing a blog or posting a tweet, the necessary illustrations, photographs or manuscripts can be found on portals such as Europeana, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and many others. This paper aims to present the process of searching for material related to the selected topic, i.e. reading as a motif on the posters in the New York Public Library Digital Collections, given that the part of the digitized material is in public domain. In addition to the numerous possibilities of using and sharing material for users of the portal, the searching process difficulties were also pointed out. The purpose of the paper is to bring the functioning of a portal with digitized material closer to readers from the point of view of librarians as users, to point out the problems of the processing, visibility, and accessibility of this material, as well as to encourage librarians to come up with ideas and solutions for creating more attractive, coherent, and user-friendly portals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]