ArtSTOR, Art Libraries and Access to Images

Marmor, Max

IFLA Council and General Conference / .
(ReLIS:jul:juljin:6735)

Abstract:

Art libraries are, among other things, vast corpora of images. The pages of art publications are, of course, replete with images of interest to the scholar, teacher, and student. These images are notoriously poorly indexed, despite the efforts of catalogers and authors and publishers of indexes to the literature of art. This is surely one primary reason great art libraries tend not to be circulating art libraries: the only way for the library user to take advantage of this vast repository of images is if the books and journals are on the shelf! Teaching institutions, needing to provide photographic slides for classroom use, have always tended to respond to this situation by creating ”copystand” slides from printed books and journals. Slide curators then classify and – more rarely – catalog these slides

Creation: 2005
Keywords: Acceso a la información ; Imágenes ; Arte ; Bibliotecas especiales ; Bibliotecas digitales ;

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