Dear Dana,
If you are going to the upcoming Art Libraries Society of North America/Visual Resources
Association Joint Conference you might consider attending the Closing Plenary Session
(Monday, March 25, 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm) on visual image databases. Some of your questions
will be addressed there.
Plenary Session II: The Three V's: Visual Image
Databases, Visual Culture, and Visualizing our Future
Proposers: Kim Collins, Emory University, and Miguel Juarez,
University of Arizona
Moderator: Katherine Martinez, Director, Fine Arts Library,
Harvard University
Speakers:
Max Marmor, ArtSTOR
Jennifer Trant, Executive Director, AMICO
Susan Jane Williams, Visual Resources Curator, Art Library,
Yale University
Sincerely, Kim Collins, art history librarian
Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University
(404)727-2997
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Dana Beth wrote:
> My director has asked for "an estimate of what is already available for license or
> purchase" in the area of digital art images. I think this includes not only raw
> numbers of images, but description of content, and price information.
>
> Has anyone made a recent effort to pull all this information together, that they'd be
> willing to share with me?
>
> Is there a library that has comprehensively purchased or subscribed to all the
> publicly-available resources?
>
> Does anyone have recent information about the progress of ArtStor?
>
> I would very much appreciate any assistance anyone can offer. Thanks!!!
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> Art & Architecture Librarian phone: 1-314-935-5218
> Washington University, St Louis fax: 1-314-935-4362
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