Issues regarding scholarly texts being addressed by Resource Library

 

- Scarcity of online free access to American representational art history essays, articles, and other texts for the benefit of students, teachers and life long learners. [1]

 

- Lack of geographical accessibility to large amounts of American art history texts.

 

- Lack of texts facilitating reading by persons with visual handicaps or those not proficient in the English language.

 

- Nationwide cuts in funding of museum operations including education budgets, causing reduction in outreach capability.

 

- Lessened ability of qualified students to attend institutions of higher learning. [2]

 

- Time constraints imposed on students, coupled with the time-consuming and tedious nature of physically accessing research material through library visitation or interlibrary loans, using handwriting for note gathering, followed by hand typing of papers, reducing as a result the time available for research and analysis.

 

 

Notes:

1. For a catalogue of texts see Catalogue of Online Articles and Essays (published outside of Resource Library). In recent years many texts that were once provided to the public without charge are now only available via paid subscription to reader services such as JSTOR.

2. In a March 2004 U.S. News and World Report article by Mortimer B. Zuckeman, Zuckeman states that "The U.S. Department of Education....estimates that 170,000 qualified students could not even afford to attend a community college this year, and 43 percent of qualified middle-class youngsters can't afford to go to a four-year school. Their options are limited to local community colleges."

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