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The TFAO Free Online Digital Library

Overview

The TFAO Free Online Digital Library is a service of Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO), a nonprofit organization. The library is a highly specialized content repository available to the public without charge. It is mainly devoted to knowledge concerning American representational art.

The collection includes Resource Library, which contains 1,200+ articles and essays written by hundreds of named authors, plus thousands of other texts, all providing educational and informational content to students, scholars, teachers and others. Most published materials relate to exhibitions. Materials may include texts from exhibition brochures or catalogues, magazine or journal articles, gallery guides, wall panels, labels, audio tour scripts (cell phone, MP3 player, Acoustiguide), blogs, checklists and news releases, plus related images. American art museums are the largest source of Resource Library's content.

The library's collection also includes catalogues, the National Calendar of Exhibitions, plus research reports and studies. TFAO owns portions of the contents and publishes other materials with the consent of other copyright holders.

TFAO performs functions for the library 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 library's 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 a count of articles and essays written by hundreds of named authors published online in Resource Library, please click here. For an estimate of the quantity of text and images in the library, please see Content and paper-printed book equivalence.

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• 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

Also see

• Digital libraries
• Digitizing initiatives

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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