Re: [ARLIS-L] Anybody dumping ArtSTOR, or
considering it?
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
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