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Following up on the message below from earlier this month, one consequence of the Met's Image Library closure is the elimination of my position as Chief Librarian. I will continue to be a member of ARLIS and keep in touch with the many friends and colleagues that I have met through this wonderful organization. Regretfully, I will not be attending the conference in Toronto. I do hope to re-emerge soon in some professional capacity in the art library world. My personal contact info is below. Andrew Gessner [log in to unmask] Subject: Changes in the Image Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art From: "Ferrari, Roberto" Reply-To: Ferrari, Roberto Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:33:40 -0500 Message from Carrie Rebora Barratt, Associate Director for Collections and Administration, Metropolitan Museum of Art: In line with other comparable cultural institutions across the country, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has long been studying best practices for the preservation and dissemination of our image collection, which exists in both analog and digital formats. A few years ago, the Met Images project took the first strategic steps toward converting and cataloguing our images to digital format to make them easily accessible to staff and available online to the public. Based on internal collaborations and changes in the image industry, the Museum has decided to leverage the knowledge base that spans across departments by bringing staff closer together for related projects. Effective February 1, 2012, staff from the Image Library will be integrated into the recently formed Digital Media Department. While individual roles and responsibilities may shift to align with the Museum’s program of digital imaging work, the services that the public has come to expect from the Museum are still available. The work of assessing the analog images collections, which has been on-going, will continue, with the goal of making specific material secure and accessible for the future. For specific inquiries related to archival analog images or for general image-related inquires, continue to contact us at [log in to unmask]. To request permission to publish Museum images, consult the Image Resources section of the Museum’s website at: http://www.metmuseum.org/research/image-resources. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~