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Jenny
Jenny Godfrey
Slide Library
University of Wales Institute Cardiff
Howard Gardens
Cardiff CF24 4TU
South Glamorgan
Wales
UK
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From: AHDS Visual Arts [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Subject: Librarians to be replaced with 'digital resources'!
The growth and linking up of digital resources across universities, colleges
and libraries provides users with greater tools and opportunities when
searching for the images and resources they need. But this could have
implications for the role of the librarian: a recent article in the Times
Higher Education Supplement lamented the cause of librarians at the
University of Wales, Bangor who are now under threat from cost-cutting
measures which may see them being replaced with digital resources.
This is just one of the many complicated and potentially threatening issues
currently affecting arts education in the UK as a direct result of the
'digital revolution'! For everything we do, whether it's teaching in the
classroom or finding images in the library, we are having to adapt to a new
model. Recent developments in technology have, without a doubt, created one
of the biggest and most profound changes the arts education community has
ever seen.
In response, a huge consultation exercise, the Digital Picture, will be
launched at the Association of Art Historians conference this week. Created
by independent arts education organisation, AHDS Visual Arts, the project is
designed to help the community explore this brave new world. The exercise
will, through coordinated, open consultation with representatives of all art
colleges, schools and university departments across England, Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland, identify problems, offer arenas for discussion and
seek practical solutions.
Have your say, or book your place at a free expert seminar, at:
www.thedigitalpicture.ac.uk
Whether you welcome the digital revolution with open arms or merely tolerate
it as the inevitable, your contribution, no matter how large or small, will
help to influence the future direction of many aspects of UK arts education
relating to digital images.
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