One of the things you need to be sure of is that your faculty have successfully contacted their publishers' representatives in order to be give the instructor's DVD's that are now available for most of the major art history textbooks. These DVDs (often done in collaboration with our best image suppliers, like Saskia/Scholars Resource, not only provide a good usable image for every illustration in the text, they also provide basic powerpoint screens of those images which can then be modified by faculty to suit their own teaching. It can save them enormous amounts of time. But this has to go through the individual publisher representatives for textbooks adopted at any given institution.
Most are also willing to give a copy to the institutions VRC for inclusion on a protected campus image bank. These publisher-produced materials are the primary reason those of us in Digital Imaging no longer have to spend lots of time, money, and energy on survey text images.
It's still very much worth it to also license basic teaching sets, as these form the core of your campus image bank, but for the faculty, nothing beats having the exact image that's in the textbook.
Eileen Fry
Indiana University.
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From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sarah McCleskey [[log in to unmask]]
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Hi everyone,
I am trying to identify sources for licensing images from the basic art history textbooks (Stokstad, Gardner, Janson, etc.). I am aware of Saskia/Scholars Resource. Are there other image licensors I should contact? I am trying to help out my colleagues in Faculty Computing, we don't really have an expert on digital images around here. I do the copyright advising for print materials and this has morphed into videos and now still images ...
We do have a subscription to ARTstor.
Thanks, everyone!
Sarah
Sarah E. McCleskey, M.A., M.S.L.S.
Head of Access Services
Acting Director, Film and Media Library
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