I had a great conversation today with Bob Rose, the new curator for the School of Art + Design's Visual Resource Library. We were talking about access to digitized images and how many platforms are currently available.
I'm plotting how I can manage to come up with an effective way of listing all of these resources on the library website for Art + Design resources. This blog will hopefully help shape that process. To begin, just a listing:
The School of Art and Design's online VRL (available to students and faculty)
The CSU World Images database http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/
The Online Archive of California http://www.oac.cdlib.org/about/oacprojects.html
ARTstor, of course!
The Library of Congress American Memory Project
Grove Art Dictionary online has images
And of course, individual museums
In addition, we have access to the Associated Press photo archive
And of course, good old Google image search (does it meta index any of the above collections? What the heck does it index?)
Flickr
Getty Resources
and I believe SJSU's illustrations file is online in the ze library catalog.
I believe that is enough of a list for now.
How to really learn the subject areas of these repositories? Must make plan...think of how to approach this like learning a new reference collection: scope, coverage, date range...How to describe access, where to go for what and when...and purpose.
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