Well I am terrible keeping up with my blogging.  I am not quite used to this yet.  However, to discuss my final project I have a few ideas that I would like to try. 
I am going to stick with my original idea using a book a central to my exhibit.  I am taking a teaching course out of the TSC and we recently read about new teaching techniques that incorporates using digital technology.  I found a few things quite interesting.  Both Augmented reality and Gesture Based Computing speak to what I wish to do with my project.  I realise though that Augmentation is too expensive and not possible.  However, I am told that gesture-based with be a lot easier to work with.  I have been looking at creating a digital pop-up book.  In a sense.  I would like my project to speak to educating children.  I worked in St Catharine's Museum in the education dept. with a focus on elementary children.  As such, I would like my book to make the great libraries and archives interactive and interesting for a younger mind.
I initially thought of creating a hologram that rose from the book when turning to the different chapters that describe a different library or archive. 
I have a picture in my mind of a large stationary book lying flat on a table.  Kids come up to it and turn to a chapter such as the Vatican archive.  The archive appears in a hologram as a signal is sent through an arduino and information is verbally told to the child about the building, historical and if still surviving, contemporary. 
Then through gesture-based computing the child can enter the building and access a document, kid friendly, that has been upload through the computer. The child can then turn the pages through gestures and read along with a voice providing the text.  the hologram will  probably not be a possibility and this is just a work in progress.  I need to do more research concerning a pop-up technical book.   I will keep you posted!!!
I am quite nervous about the technical side of all this, however, quite excited to maybe build something myself!