How best can digital images from licensed resources find their way into the classroom? The RLG Advisory Group on Instructional Technology investigated this issue through review of current practice in the community and interviews with faculty who teach with digital images. While the findings of the Advisory Group are applicable to any image database supporting teaching and learning, RLG is taking to heart the recommendations as we plan enhancements to our Cultural Materials service. RLG Cultural Materials (http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=630) provides access to photos, digitized manuscripts, art, historical documents, and memorabilia from around the world to support teaching and learning. The findings of the working group validate RLG's strategy of focusing on discovery in the image resource itself, while enabling easy import of the images into the management and presentation tools that the campus or individual faculty member prefers to use. Beyond a simple way to work with single images, the group also advised on more advanced mechanisms for downloading large sets of images, as well as access from outside the resource (e.g., meta-searching or interoperating with other systems, such as Luna Insight and ARTstor). RLG will pursue all these possibilities in making our image resources as useful as possible. For more details, please read the report at http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=406. Merrilee Proffitt & Günter Waibel Program Officers/RLG merrilee.proff...@notes.rlg.org guenter.wai...@notes.rlg.org --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
