Dear ARLIS-L,
I was wondering if any of you have had any experience or advice that you
could share with me regarding faculty-owned (or not) image collections
and collaboration/cooperation with the library. Here at LMU we do not
have a visual resources library, and although in the past the faculty
used to put slide carousels on reserve at the library, over the last 5
years this practice has all but disappeared. We have heard rumors of an
upcoming digitization effort for the faculty's teaching image
collection, but we have not been consulted to be a part of this, and are
feeling like this may be a missed opportunity for collaboration.
We have ARTstor, but haven't had a lot of success getting faculty to use
this regularly yet, and also have ContentDM for our digital library
collections. I know that ARTstor has features that enable faculty to
integrate their own imagery, but my limited experience tells me that
this isn't appropriate to use as a central image repository.
Has anyone had any success with using ContentDM for faculty-owned
("owned" unfortunately might be used a bit loosely) imagery? Are there
any success or horror stories that anyone can share with me regarding
cooperation between Art History faculty and the library without a
pre-existing visual resources relationship? Good old fashioned advice
would be appreciated, too!
Thank you!
Jamie Hazlitt
Reference Librarian
Von Der Ahe Library
Loyola Marymount University
310 338 5234
www.lmu.edu/library
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