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-----Original Message-----
From: Godfrey, Jenny
Sent: 08 May 2003 12:02
To: 'arlis-link'; 'artdeslib'; 'SCLS'
Cc: 'VRA'; Thomas, Arwen J.
Subject: RE: Digital images


Fran
Can I ask that replies are either on list or that you summarise the replies?


This is an important subject for us all. I am in fact currently writing
something on how the environment for slide libraries is changing all around
us and trying to work out what is going to happen and how best we can serve
our users.This will be a paper to be discussed at ACADI
http://library.newport.ac.uk/acadi/acadi_home.html and ARLIS VRC
http://www.arlis.org.uk/comm/vrccomm.html. You are quite right. They want
digital images. But when you ask if any of us have digitised our slide
collections you do know that that would in most cases be illegal ?
(Copyright). We subscribe to AMICO here- last year on the special price deal
from CHEST but we have been advised that next year' s price will be hugely
increased and we cannot envisage affording it. This is a pity as One (!)
lecturer has started to work with our VLE advisor on setting up a small
course on Blackboard using AMICO images.
Please write in Everybody ---and say what you think about this subject. I am
very interested to hear what's going on in the UK as well as the US and
Australia. It's easier for me to gain a picture of American perspectives on
slide library issues through their listserv
http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=VRA-L&H=LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 than it ever is for the UK


as for lecturers' illegal slides-I try and ensure that the slide library is
seen as the best place for slidemaking and slide storage and retrieval. It
is. Any lecturers wishing to keep drawers of unlabelled unclassified slides
are not hounded by me. They know if they take the trouble to get them lodged
here they'll be retrievable, well labelled and available for their students.
It's their choice. I will leave it to other Bodies to play policeman. The
library educates its users in Copyright issues and that's all we can do. The
issue of digital images is different. While we are not providing lecturers
with a/(n alternative and better) service the likelihood is that they'll all
be scanning away merrily.
Jenny Godfrey
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-----Original Message-----
From: Fran Porritt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 May 2003 16:34
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Subject: Digital images


Dear all,
Apologies for cross-postings.
I would be interested to hear how other HE libraries are dealing with the
demand for digital images.
Design lecturers at the University of Teesside need images to illustrate
lectures, and more and more are required in electronic format.

What sources are libraries using to provide these images? Which databases
do you subscribe to, and which ones would you recommend?

Have you digitised your own slide collection? If so, have you found this to
be worthwhile? What problems have you encountered?

How have you dealt with the issue of lecturers who keep their own slide
collections, possibly containing illegal slides?

Thank you for any help that you can provide. Please reply to me off-list at
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Fran Porritt