The TFAO Digital Library

TFAO-dl overview

Traditional Fine Art Organization's digital library (TFAO-dl) is a department of Traditional Fine Art Organization (TFAO), a nonprofit organization. TFAO-dl is a highly specialized content repository. It is devoted to one topic: knowledge concerning American representational art. The collection includes authored contents of physical exhibition catalogues, magazine and journal articles, TFAO-produced articles, texts and catalogues. TFAO-dl owns portions of the contents and has published other portions with the consent of other copyright holders.

TFAO performs functions for TFAO-dl that are common with physical libraries including:

• selection, acquisition and receipt of content
• cataloging and classifying contents
• storage of contents
• maintaining its equipment, facility and systems
• deselection of contents

The TFAO-dl operating model provides a case study for cost-efficient storage and distribution of knowledge and the operation of a digital library. Its low cost of operation provides a template for study by others considering developing digital libraries.

For an estimate of the quantity of text and images in TFAO-dl please see TFAO-dl: Content and paper-printed book equivalence.

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• Digital libraries
• Digitizing initiatives
• TFAO-dl overview
• Acquisition and deselection of content
• Content retrieval
• Usage
• Web connectivity
• Durability and protection of content
• Open access
• eBooks and public libraries
• A vision of the future for digital libraries
• A vision of the future for TFAO

Links to sources of information outside of our web site are provided only as referrals for your further consideration. Please use due diligence in judging the quality of information contained in these and all other Web sites and in employing referenced consultants or vendors. Information from linked sources may be inaccurate or out of date. Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc neither recommends or endorses these referenced organizations. Although Traditional Fine Art Organization, Inc. includes links to other web sites, it takes no responsibility for the content or information contained on those other sites, nor exerts any editorial or other control over those other sites. For more information on evaluating web pages see Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc.'s General Resources section in Online Resources for Collectors and Students of Art History.

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