ARTSTOR'S DIGITAL LANDSCAPE

摘要

The scenario is a familiar one: Professor smith teaches in the history department on campus (but it could be anthropology, classics, literature and languages, philosophy, religious studies, or sociology). She is winding her way through the unfamiliar precincts of the art history department on a mission. She wants to start using images in her teaching, having concluded that by requiring her students to take into account art, architecture, and visual and material culture she can truly bring her subject to life for a new generation. Her own department does not offer a slide library, let alone curatorial assistance for cataloging and managing teaching images. So she is in search of the elusive art history slide library she has heard so much about from her art historian colleagues. Professor Smith finally reaches the slide library—only to discover that using the collection is not going to be easy. The visual resources curator, who clearly would like to be helpful, has no support staff and is more than fully occupied with the needs of his primary clientele in the art history department, who now require him to manage both slides and digital images. There is no other entity on campus that offers comparable collections and services shaped around the work of teachers.