Finding & Using Images

Agenda

Welcome—Ray English, Director of Libraries

Overview of issues related to finding and using images

Cynthia Comer, Head of Reference & Instruction, Main Library

• Types/formats of images
Copyright concerns

Visible Web and Invisible Web

Intellectual access (indexing, cataloging, description)

How and where to find images: demonstration of selected resources

Cynthia Comer
Barbara Prior, Art Librarian, Clarence Ward Art Library
Haipeng Li, Reference Librarian/Outreach Coordinator, Main Library

Identifying quality web sites

General search engines

Image search engines

Still images

Moving images

Using research databases to find images

Where to get help

Digitizing your own image collection

Alan Boyd, Associate Director of Libraries

What makes a “collection”?

Standards for organizing and describing image collections

Software for making image collections available

Getting started on a digitization project

Faculty Perspectives – Discussion/Sharing/Questions

Opening comments: Steven Volk, Professor of History and Chair, Latin American Studies

Visual Resources: An On-Line Guide for FYSP-175 ("How Images Matter")

Footnote/Endnote Citation Form: A Short Guide by Steve Volk

Possible discussion topics

Wrap-up, concluding remarks