General Information

Chepesiuk, Ron. Preserving History on Film. American Libraries. June/July 2000.

Erfert, Fenton and Christine Morrissett (1990). Canned Art :clip art for the Macintosh. Berkeley, Peachpit Press.

Fausett, Bret A. "Do you copy? What the courts are saying about fair use and linking rights." new.architect. July 2002, vol. 7, issue 7. http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2442/na0702h/index.html

Gowan, Michael. Find everything faster. PC World, Sept. 2001, Vol. 19, Issue http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?AN=4958888&db=afh& (note: this link will only work for CSUC authenticated users)

Helman, Christopher, and Tom Post. "Snap Decisions: the world's best-known photographs come from one of two Seattle companies. Here's how they make a buck." Forbes. May 15, 2000. Vol 165, Issue 11, p.326, 2p. (available via Academic Search)

Knight, Lorrie A . Locating Public Domain Images. C&RL News, Jan. 1998. pp 11-13.

Liddy, Elizabeth. How a Search Engine Works. Searcher, May 2001,Vol. 9, Issue 5 http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?AN=4446940&db=afh& (note: this link will only work for CSUC authenticated users)

Petrucha, Stefan. Stock Marketing: Licensed, royalty free or public domain-choices for stock footage abound. AV Video Multimedia Producer. March 2001. pp66-76

Pruitt, Scarlet , Peer-to-Peer Site Surrenders in Court, PC World, IDG News Service
May 23, 2002

Webpages and Sites:
MERLOT is one site that didnt fit neatly into any of the categories.MERLOT is a wonderful repository for a variety of online learning materials that originated in our own CSU.

CanCore, short for Canadian Core Learning Resource Metadata Specification, is another group like Merlot worth keeping an eye on. This is an attempt to create a protocol to describe all multimedia educational objects. Related to this is "CAREO - Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects - CAREO is in the process on creating an online repository of online educational objects and has been central in creating the CanCore protocol." Unfortunately the Cancore link says its forbidden right now, so I cant tell you more.
For more related info: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Workshop.html

Finding Images Online, by Paula Berinstein. This is an alphabetical subject directory for images.
Her list is long.

Other Voices: http://www.photosource.com/voices.html
Photographer's index: http://www.photosource.com/voices/index.html
cd-rom publishers: http://www.photosource.com/voices/cdrom.html

The Artchive: CD ROM reviews, art links and more. "The images, text and articles included at this site are for private, non-profit use only."

Additional graphics related sites

CIELO - California State University Image Exchange Library Online "CIELO is a core collection of digital images and text designed to support the art and architectural history survey courses taught in the California State University system. Presently, the CIELO database covers art and architecture from prehistory through the medieval period.

Comments and Observations and Reflections
On Graphics : After bouncing around the web looking checking out graphics sites we got the impression that the most fruitful searches will be more focused searches, looking for images for specific topics. There are just too many sites out there to deal with otherwise. There is also a big problem of stolen images in many of the collections that we have looked at.

On Resources: Resources tend to be aimed at sales to businesses,especially with Stock Photo companies or they are aimed at consumers of pop culture entertainment products, especially with audio and video. A much smaller portion seems to be aimed at educators and education institutions, and these tend to be for K-12 and not higher education. This is unfortunate as the Internet did originate largely with educational researches. Like so much in America, the emphasis has become on mass entertainment and business profits.

Many US government agencies have free materials available on their websites. It is worth investigating to see if any agencies have materials for your academic area.

There are many, many icon and clip arts sites. Most are junk with enough animations to make your head spin.

Clip art: simple black and white drawings good to use as inline graphics on paper documents.

An observation- Radiology depts. and University Ag extension offices often are leaders in the web and imagery.

Public Domain Report - newsletter for subscribers about images and more in the public domain. More for subscribers.

On Music Formats: A web page that explains the difference between MIDI and Wave files.

Resources from Textbook Publishers
Many textbook publishers offer supplemental web pages and/or CD-ROMS for their products. Visit their web sites to see what is available. For CSU Chico Faculty, James Tyler is available to help you find out more information about these materials.

Learning Objects
Technically all of the materials in the Digital Media Bank could be learning objects, but learning objects as a topic unto itself has taken off recently.
See http://www.csuchico.edu/lcmt/learningobjects for more information.

You are responsible for obeying copyright laws and any conditions stated on the sites that you access.

January 27, 2004 11:24 AM