26 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Portions of archives and special collections donated by individuals.
Purchased special collections of born-digital images.
Reformatting of special collections.
Store and manage digital images created by faculty.
The library receives donations of digitized images, e.g., 10 lost American silent films discovered in the holdings of
Gosfilmofond, the State Film Archive of Russia, which digitized them for donation to the library. We also participate in
noncommercial licensed collections, e.g., ARTstor.
Vendor-digitized images of analog materials.
We also host digital images for a branch campus.
3. For each subject area below, please indicate whether the majority of digital images held by your
library is from licensed collections, digitized analog images, or born-digital images. Select “none”
if your library holds no digital images in that subject area. Please select one choice per row. N=80
Subject Area Licensed
collections
Digitized analog
images
Born-digital
images
None N
Fine Arts 55 21 0 2 78
Humanities 25 47 2 3 77
Sciences 28 29 8 12 77
Social Sciences 25 37 7 6 75
Medicine 24 16 2 32 74
Other subject area(s) 3 16 2 9 30
Total Responses 59 57 16 35 80
55
25 28 25 24
3
21
47
29 37
16
16
2
8
7
2
2
2 3
12 6
32
9
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Fine Arts Humani8es Sciences Social Sciences Medicine Other subject area(s)
Licensed collec8ons Digi8zed analog images Born-­‐digital images None