This special report looks at the management and development of America’s thriving special collections in film and photography. The report profiles the following collections: The University of Louisville, the Photographic Archives; the University of Utah’s Multimedia Collection; The American Institute of Physics’ Emilio Segre Visual Archives; The Newsfilm Library at the University of South Carolina; The University of California, Berkeley Pacific Film Archive; the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the Vanderbilt University Television News Archive; The National Archives and Records Administration’s Special Media Preservation Laboratory; the University of Washington’s Digital Initiatives. The report covers digitization of photographs and film, special collection marketing, collection procurement, funding and financing, approaches for optimizing both sales revenues and educational uses, development of web-based sale and distribution systems for photography and film, systems to assure copyright compliance, the development of online searchable databases, and many other aspects of film and photography special collection management.
Available October 2005