Images Online: Perspectives on the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project

Images Online: Perspectives on the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project

Edited by Patricia McClung and Christie Stephenson

1998

96 pages

PDF file size: 31.4 MB


Description

This companion volume to Delivering Digital Images: Cultural Heritage Resources for Education includes nine essays by project participants highlighting their experiences and recommendations. It covers the impact of digital image availability on teaching and classroom interactions, on university and museum infrastructures, and also speculates about legal issues, including the site licensing model.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword, Eleanor Fink
  • Preface, Kathleen McDonnell
  • Introduction, Patricia McClung and Christie Stephenson
  • Technology and the Teaching of African Art, Benjamin C. Ray
  • Digital Images in the Art History Classroom: Personal Reflections, Sally M. Promey
  • A New Culture of Learning: Courses in Nineteenth-Century Art Using Digital Images, Laura L. Meixner
  • Integrating Licensed Images into a Digital Library: Access and Resource Management Issues, David Millman
  • The Maryland Interactive System for Image Searching: Implementing a System to Facilitate Teaching with Digital Images, Ellen Yu Borkowski and Catherine Hays
  • Evolutionary Progress: MESL’s Impact at American University, Kathe Hicks Albrecht
  • Altering the Culture and Identity of the Museum: The Risks and Benefits of Providing Networked Information, Roger Bruce
  • Experiments at the Harvard Art Museum: MESL as a Catalyst for Change, Miriam Stewart
  • Musings on the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project, Melissa Smith Levine
  • About the Contributors
  • Credits

About the Authors

Patricia McClung is a consultant to libraries and museums on digital initiatives and has served as manager of the MESL project since 1995.

Christie Stephenson is Librarian for Digital Collections at the New York University Libraries.