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Dear Sarah and fellow Arlisians,

If your colleagues wish to license the images you see in textbooks for publication, many if not most of the images supplied to the publishers came from our archive, The Bridgeman Art Library.  We are the world’s leading source of fine art and historical images for publishing.  We are happy to work with academic publications and can provide high resolution digital files and a license for publishing at very reasonable scholarly rates.  Please contact me for a quote if this is the case.

 

If the image is going to be strictly for in-classroom use, Eileen is correct to tell you to check for an accompanying DVD, but if the publisher has not licensed the images for electronic use the digital files may not be available for teaching.  If that is the case, then I would recommend that you consider a subscription to our educational product, Bridgeman Education, which could provide you with access to thousands of images that you see in the most widely held textbooks.  A yearly subscription is based on the enrollment of your school.   We offer a free 30-day trial of the product by registering at www.bridgemaneducation.com.   Please contact me if you would like more information about this.

 

Respectfully,

Wendy Zieger

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Wendy Zieger

Bridgeman Education Specialist

The Bridgeman Art Library International Ltd

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From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Fry, P. Eileen
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 6:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] licensing images from textbooks

 

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]]

Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 4:53 PM

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Subject: [ARLIS-L] licensing images from textbooks

 

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

112 Axinn Library

123 Hofstra University

Hempstead, NY 11549

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516-463-5076 (o)

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