Managing Image Collections
A Practical Guide
By Margot Note
ISBN: 9781843345992
Published: 2011
6 x 9 | 220 pp. | $85.00
Based in real-world experiences, Managing Image Collections explores the issues surrounding all aspects of digital image collection management. Readers will learn how to manage the digitization process from start to finish, define and assess the needs of their particular projects, and evaluate the many digitization options available.
"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."
Art Libraries Society of North America
With this book as their step-by-step guide, readers will also be ready to choose the strategies that best meet their current and future needs, select the best images for digitization, and understand the legal issues surrounding the digitization of visual collections.
Aimed at the busy information professional, this practical and accessible handbook will be useful to anyone tasked with starting an image digitization project.
