Visual Resources on a Budget: Image Databases on the Open Web
- Conference Year
- Online Northwest 2010
- Session
- 1
- Type
- Breakout Session
- Presenters
- Tricia Juettemeyer, Art Institute of Portland
- Dan McClure, Pacific Northwest College of Art
- Abstract
As budgets continued to be slashed, and libraries lose electronic resources due to a lack of funding, how do librarians find quality image resources to provide to patrons for their creative projects as well as to illustrate their in-class presentations? At the Art Institute of Portland and the Pacific Northwest College of Art, librarians Tricia Juettemeyer and Dan McClure are teaching students about the Creative Commons, Every Stock Photo, Morgue File, the Flickr Commons Project, and United States government-produced imagery. So, what are these resources? What are their copyright restrictions? How can students use these resources? How can these resources be more useful than for-fee image databases? Attend the Visual Resources on a Budget session to find out more about these resources and how to incorporate these databases into your library’s electronic resources. Visual Resources on a budget is primarily directed at visual resources and arts librarians who are responsible for providing resources to students in need of images for creative practice; however, this session is applicable to all librarians who want to provide image resources to their patrons in a database format. We will discuss how to search these databases (list available if requested), how to identify copyright restrictions and ensure rights of use, the importance of folksonomies (tagging), as well as how to avoid the potential pitfalls of using online images.
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