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Managing Image Collections: A Practical Guide
This book explores issues surrounding all aspects of visual collection management, taken from real-world experience in creating management systems and digitizing core content. Readers will gain the knowledge to manage the digitization process from beginning to end, assess and define the needs of their particular project, and evaluate digitization options. Additionally, they will select strategies which best meet current and future needs, acquire the knowledge to select the best images for digitization, and understand the legal issues surrounding digitization of visual collections.
216 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2011
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Margot Note
11 books60 followersMargot Note is a Certified Archivist, a Certified Records Manager, an Information Governance Professional, and Project Management Professional.
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February 12, 2016
Excerpt from a book review by Art Libraries Society of North America:
"Note's strengths are in providing framework for conceptualizing collections and identifying best practices her insight into decontextualized photographs and collection appraisal are particularly good. She prepares the reader to approach project planning equipped to make decisions about objectives, staffing, costs, and technology...Cited and referenced works were thoughtfully chosen and artfully applied. The appendices are quite useful...Note's 'Further Reading' list is well selected and would be a reliable resource for collection development in the area of photography."
Excerpt from a book review in Journal of Academic Librarianship:
"Margot Note delivers an interesting and useful guide for those faced with the challenging task of creating and maintaining a digital image collection....She manages an extensive visual collection that she has shared with the world through ARTstor, a leading digital initiative. Her qualifications withstanding, Note's book is well written and engaging. It retains the readers' attention with various historical lessons about photography while explaining the basics of creating, accessing, and maintaining a hybrid image collection. She provides a framework for identifying best practices in image management and prepares the reader to rise to the challenge of an image digitization project."
"Note's strengths are in providing framework for conceptualizing collections and identifying best practices her insight into decontextualized photographs and collection appraisal are particularly good. She prepares the reader to approach project planning equipped to make decisions about objectives, staffing, costs, and technology...Cited and referenced works were thoughtfully chosen and artfully applied. The appendices are quite useful...Note's 'Further Reading' list is well selected and would be a reliable resource for collection development in the area of photography."
Excerpt from a book review in Journal of Academic Librarianship:
"Margot Note delivers an interesting and useful guide for those faced with the challenging task of creating and maintaining a digital image collection....She manages an extensive visual collection that she has shared with the world through ARTstor, a leading digital initiative. Her qualifications withstanding, Note's book is well written and engaging. It retains the readers' attention with various historical lessons about photography while explaining the basics of creating, accessing, and maintaining a hybrid image collection. She provides a framework for identifying best practices in image management and prepares the reader to rise to the challenge of an image digitization project."
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