50 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Targeted emails to faculty
Training sessions for students
Twitter, Facebook, presentations, instructional modules for freshmen
Videos, in-person presentations, published research articles, news releases, social media tools, etc.
We have several flat screens mounted in public spaces in the main library. These cycle through various slides, which the
Art &Architecture Library has used to publicize new image databases.
Webcasts about library digital image collections
Working with departments and university partners to promote to special user groups Twitter, Facebook (social media)
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
16. Does your library have a collection development policy that explicitly addresses the acquisition of
digital images, including licensed image databases/resources? N=78
Digital images are not explicitly addressed 48 62%
Digital images are addressed in a general collection development policy 17 22%
Digital images are addressed in an electronic resources collection policy 7 9%
There is a separate digital images policy 6 8%
Comments N=11
Collection policies are typically format agnostic.
Digital images are addressed in standard agreement materials, as with the deed of gift.
Digital photography is addressed in the collection policy on photography.
Minimally addressed
Part of the Visual Arts collection development policy
Special Collections and Archives acquires material of subject/topic relevance, regardless of format.
There is a policy for videos.
There is a selection guide for the digitization of images [that also includes other types of materials]. I suspect that there
is a separate policy for purchased images, but am not sure.
We are in the process of revising all our collection development policies (both general and disciplinary). During this
process, we will define the digital images collection policy.
We do have a policy for digitization of our own rare and special collections, but none that addresses all types of
acquisition.
We treat digitized collections different from purchased collections. There are different selection criteria for both.
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