Comment on Session Proposal: How Can We Best Serve Scholarship in Art History—Art, Architecture, and the Digital Future of the Heavily Illustrated Book by mkahn

mkahn
Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:38:06 +0000

Thank you for proposing this! As a former art & architecture librarian and current publishing professional, I have also been thinking about the “digital future of the heavily illustrated book” from several angles (bibliographer, teaching librarian, publishing librarian). From my current vantage point, I get questions from authors (well, mostly from their grad student research assistants and visual resources colleagues, to be honest) who are having trouble securing permission to use images for electronic publications or who are being asked to pay astronomical permissions fees because they are looking to use the image in a non-print format. I would love to have a discussion about the issues you’ve raised, as well as how to counsel authors through the process.

At the very least, I’d love to have a drink with you and pick your brain.