Primary Research Group, www.Primaryresearch.com, is seeking a librarian/author to write a monograph of approximately 10,000 words on how academic libraries are managing major digital image collections. The collections may be medical/scientific, artistic, historical, data visualizations or any other kind of image collection. The author will profile the efforts of 4 organizations, predominantly but not exclusively research universities, focusing on issues such as: image housing and processing software and applications, internal search engines, access, metadata, preservation, copyright, use restrictions & security, use in education and scholarship, marketing and distribution, relations with institutional digital repositories and if applicable, sales and licensing of the images. The author will have considerable scope to shape the interviews as he or she sees fit. In addition to the profiles, the author will conduct a literature search and augment the findings in the profiles with insights from the existing literature. This is a compensated assignment. To inquire or apply, send cover letter and resume to [log in to unmask]
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