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Your query, Michael, reminded me of a section in the VRA White Paper http://www.vraweb.org/resources/general/vra_white_paper.pdf that might be of interest. Please see the passage below or the link for additional information as the footnotes didn't copy over. Another source that might be of interest is: Vaidhyanathan, Siva. The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. There will surely be more discussion of such image issues at the upcoming Toronto conference, but for those who can't get to Canada this year please feel free to join VRA in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 18-21st, where will be exploring a wide range of image-focused topics. ARLIS members do not have to be members of VRA to get the member discount on registration due to our affiliation. Best regards, Maureen Burns VRA President Multiple Sources for Image Content Visual resources are available to an institution from a variety of internal and external sources: * Collections assembled by individuals * Collections managed institutionally * Subscription services * Services combining these sources These vary in the degree to which they are: * Free or fee-based * Open or restricted access * Discoverable by search engines or closed to them A similar range of resources exists for most forms of information such as text, audio, and video. Visual resources professionals expect a future in which this diversity of sources will continue and, indeed, prove essential to sustain educational use. An economic model where any one source dominates can lead to serious inefficiencies. Educational users often complain that images found with Google or other search engines frequently lack the quality required for illustrating lectures or assignments, are inaccurately identified, or of questionable legal status. While some high-quality images may be found "for free" on the open Web, quality always requires financial, technical, and human resources, whether or not the end user pays directly. Although existing sources supply billions of pictures, teaching and research continually require additional images. As with other information formats, new areas of knowledge and inquiry create fresh needs. Teachers, students, and museum curators constantly invent urgent new uses for pictures. Local production of image assets has always been an effective response to dynamic requirements and should continue to be a significant part of the increasingly complex array of image sources. At 7:11 PM +0000 3/26/12, Michael Young wrote: >Good afternoon, > >Are any academic libraries finding that the web is more than >adequate for their digital image needs, so that they are no longer >able to justify the considerable expense of Art STOR, or have your >users become dependent on ArtSTOR? > >Michael Young > >Art & Design Librarian and Arts & Humanities Team Leader > >Homer Babbidge Library > >University of Connecticut > >Storrs, Connecticut 06269 > >Tel. 860-486-4953 > >Fax 860-486-6100 > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Mail submissions to ><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] For >information about joining ARLIS/NA see: ><http://www.arlisna.org/join.html>http://www.arlisna.org/join.html >Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, >etc) to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] >ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: ><http://lsv.arlisna.org>http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be >addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: ><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Maureen Burns, Ed.D. IMAGinED Consulting 310-489-3792 [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] http://imageminders.net/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~