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=Selected Theaters=

The historic movie theaters that are discussed in this Wiki were selected by a group of Master of Library Science students at IUPUI. We began our discussion of a topic for this Wiki project by creating a thread on OnCourse Discussion. We first talked about the different ways we could communicate virtually since this project is for a web based class. While some of our group members had used virtual conferencing tools, others had not. We discussed several options to communicate including OnCourse Chat, Skype, and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). Using OnCourse Discussion's thread, we agreed to use AIM and decided upon a time to meet virtually.

To decide upon a topic, two students dicussed on OnCourse Discussion about possible ideas that would be feasible for a group to work on. We decided to offer the topic of movies to the group as a possible Wiki. By chance, two more students, met online and they discussed the same possible topic. On the evening that all of us met the idea of movies was discussed by all group members. It was decided, however, that this topic had been discussed extensively on the Internet and in Wikipedia. It was agreed that the topic was not unique enough. Our group discussion then turned to the movie theaters. The idea of historic movie theaters emerged and it was decided this would be our topic. Since our group members are located throughout Indiana, we all had an old movie theater in mind that we could research.

We believe that this topic makes a unique contribution to the web since the historic movie theaters we have chosen are not easily found on the Internet or in Wikipedia. One historic Indiana movie theater which does have significant web representation, but which may also be of interest to our readers is the [|Buskirk Chumley] of Bloomington. The Buskirk Chumley has remained a vital part of Bloomington's cultural life, despite limitations placed on it by the Kerasotes theater chain, which "gave" the theater to the Bloomington Area Arts Council on the condition that it would not become a Kerasotes competitor.

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