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Washington National Gallery of Art announces new image resource and open access policy

Great news for anyone wanting to use images for either teaching or publication from the National Gallery of Art in Washington; over 20,000 open access images are being made available for free and without the need to first contact the museum to seek permissions. Enjoy!

Open Culture: free cultural & educational media

Looking for high quality cultural media on the web? Open Culture is a resource that brings together intelligent video and audio in one place. 450 free films – Godard, Tarkovsky, Tarantino etc. 290 cultural icons – Samuel Beckett, Noam Chomsky, Marshall McLuhan. 425 audio/video online courses to download -aesthetics, art history, philosophy, film etc.

ACADI meeting March 2012

The next ACADI meeting will be held at Kingston University on Thursday 15th March 2012.

If you are involved in visual resources and education, why not join ACADI and come along?  The meetings are informal and friendly. The agenda covers issues such as the perennial image copyright,  subscription image databases and image management systems.

Ray of light re digitisation of VHS for US librarians?

Though happening “across the pond”, this may still be of interest to Visual Resources professionals in the UK who are still maintaining VHS collections:

Fair-Use Guide Seeks to Solve Librarians’ VHS-Cassette Problem

UK Copyright Law: IPO consultation

ACADI members are asked to pool their thoughts in response to the government’s current  consultation document on changes to copyright law. The consultation with the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) follows on from the recommendations in the Hargreaves report.

This is an opportunity for ACADI members to ask for an exception to allow the use of images in education.

The consultation is also looking at the costs associated with existing educational licence schemes and particularly welcomes data that helps to assess the costs and benefits of these proposals.

Katie and Matt will co-ordinate members’ responses. Please send your comments via the list as soon as possible, the closing date for responses is 21st March 2012.

Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) news

At a CLA Higher Education (HE) Practitioner Focus Group meeting on Monday 5 December, representatives from HE institutions urged the CLA to extend the HE licence to cover the use of images included within the CLA repertoire.

They were clear that for images, this would need to be a blanket licence without reporting requirements, so that academics could source for themselves the images they needed from books and journals. CLA representatives said they would think about this request to have images covered further by the HE Licence.

Changing Light: a plethora of digital tools as slides gasp their last?

As requested, I am sharing details about the paper ‘Changing Light: a plethora of digital tools as slides gasp their last?’ that is now available online, which may be of interest to ACADI members.

Last Autumn, Marie-Therese Gramstadt undertook a ‘Slide Stats’ survey using the ARLIS-LINK and ACADI JISCMail lists, further information about the survey is available here: The death of slides? ACADI members were extremely generous with their time and contribution, and some of their responses have been incorporated into the ‘Changing Light’ paper.

Links

• Original presentation abstract for ‘Changing Light’ 2010
• Final peer-reviewed version of written paper for ‘Changing Light’ 2011 (PDF)
• Additional published papers available freely here: UCA Research Online MTG Outputs
• UCA Learning and Teaching Research Grant blog

Creative Ownership in a Post-Scarcity World

Monday 31 October, at Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ

The Guardian’s Tech Weekly will host a debate about ownership, copyright and intellectual property.Panelists will join Ed Vaizey MP (Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries) to discuss the Hargreaves Report and the Digital Economies Act.

Read more…

ACADI meeting summary July 2011

ACADI members met at the University of Oxford, Department of Art History.
Topics discussed included:

• The ACADI Wiki at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Curators_of_Art_and_Design_Images. Members were invited to add links and citations.

• The issues associated with moving or disposing of institutional slide collections.

• Image quality in subscription image database resources.

• An update on the Copyright Licensing Agency Licence and the campaign for a digital image licence.

• The wording of a proposed letter to the Times Higher Educational Supplement was discussed. It will highlight the difficulties of using images under the current copyright legislation.

• The changing role of the Visual Resources Librarian. Members shared a long list of new tasks included in their remits.

• A slide catalogue archive was proposed. A list of members’ holdings will be published on the blog.

• Adoption of electronic visual resources; international comparative study.Vicky Brown and Catherine Worrall are researching the take up of electronic visual resources in the UK & Ireland vs. the USA. ACADI members were encouraged to fill out the survey emailed to the list on 6th July 2011.

Many thanks to Vicky Brown and Christine Robertson for hosting the useful and enjoyable day.

The complete minutes may be downloaded from the members’ page. Join us to read the details!

ACADI Members’ Meeting July 2011

ACADI members will be meeting on July 12 2011 at the University of Oxford.

If you are already an ACADI member and would like to come along, please contact victoria.brown@hoa.ox.ac.uk

If you are not yet an ACADI member, please contact n.paine@bathspa.ac.uk