We are also partnering with the Art History Dept's Visual Media Center (a recent merger of the slide library and the Dept's Media Center for Art History and Preservation) to mount their "electronic slide collection" in Insight. The Visual Media Center will also be moving their cataloging and image processing to this system, using Insight's new input and update system (Inscribe).

The Libraries new campus-wide visual resources strategy came at the initiative of the Libraries' Deputy Director, Patricia Renfro, the former director of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Angela Giral, and the head of the Visual Media Center, Robert Carlucci, and built upon planning already underway to support image management and access as part of the Libraries Digital Program.

We have not received / allocated any additional positions for our "Columbia Visual Resources Repository" program. Purchases of image collections have come through the Libraries collections budget; hardware and software were purchased through the Libraries capital budget; temporary staffing for Insight implementation came from a separate R&D project that will use Insight as a search and retrieval testbed.

The availability of ArtStor will not change our overall campus visual resources strategy; it will be one more set of resources for us to make available to our community. We expect the Mellon & ArtStor organizations to follow through on their commitment to make the ArtStor collections available via Insight so we can consolidate our access platforms as much as possible. Meanwhile, though. we will continue to make external art and image databases such as RLG Cultural Materials, American Memory, AP Photo Archive, etc. available to our users. Since studies have shown that those using images for teaching and research need to have the broadest possible access to image collections to locate desired images and views, we look forward to a more integrated national approach to discovery of and access to images, perhaps OAI-based, to help provide our users with the ability to find the images they need, along with the necessary ownership and rights information, as we have done for decades with books and other types of material.