On-Campus Resources
Copyright questions
Grover Zinn, Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences and Chair,
Copyright Committee
Ray English, Director of Libraries
Barbara Sawhill, Director of the Language Lab
Fred Zwegat, Director of Audiovisual Services
Scanning/digitizing images
Albert Borroni, OCTET
Can assist with digitizing photographs, slides, pictures, diagrams, and
short videos. The results can be put up on the web or a CD.
Useful Links
Online tutorial
Finding Images on the Web
An online tutorial maintained by Ruth S. Thomas, Art/Art History Bibliographer,
Boston University Library.
Directories of image web sites
Photographic Libraries
The stock images, film, and photo archives listed provide a creative source
for television producers, advertising agencies, libraries, education centers,
picture researchers and photojournalists researching visual communications.
Photographic Libraries is a member of the G.E.M (Gateway to Educational Materials)
community, an initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and
located at the Information Institute of Syracuse at Syracuse University
Articles
A Review of Image Search Engines
TASI, Feb. 2003
Creating digital collections
The NINCH Guide to
Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage
Materials. by the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University
of Glasgow, and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH)
The Digital Library Federation (DLF)
A consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering the use
of electronic information technologies to extend their collections and services.
The DLF provides leadership for libraries broadly by identifying standards
and "best practices" for digital collections and network access,
coordinating leading-edge research-and-development in libraries' use of electronic-information
technology, and helping start projects and services that libraries need but
cannot develop individually.
TASI
TASI (the Technical Advisory Service for Images) is hosted by the Institute
for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT ) at the University of Bristol,
U.K. It provides advice and guidance to the higher education community on
the issues of creating high quality digital images within education and using
them to support teaching, learning, and research. TASI promotes good practice
by encouraging and supporting the use of relevant standards and by providing
advice, guidance, support ,training and consultancy.
Copyright information
Crash Course in Copyright
Georgia Harper, University of Texas
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