Resource Library: Submitting materials -- The big picture

Resource Library: Submitting Materials

The big picture

Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO), Resource Library's publisher, seeks to ultimately have placed online -- where feasible -- all films, audio recordings and paper-printed texts relating to American representational art. A proximate goal of TFAO is to permanently place on its site all available paper-printed texts within its field of interest that are not otherwise freely available on other sites through the efforts of other nonprofit or commercial organizations. In its site's unique content pages, cross references and links are made to exhibition catalogues, articles, online videos, DVD and VHS videos, online audio, illustrated audio, and other compilations for further study.

Articles and essays from named authors

Through its publication Resource Library, TFAO offers a complimentary digitizing and online publishing service to copyright holders of paper-printed texts. Resource Library's pages on scholarly texts from institutions and scholarly text from private sources describe its benefits to both the public and its sources of content. Resource Library does not charge authors to publish texts and offers the texts for online reading free of charge. The texts may be "in copyright" or with expired copyrights and may be "in print" or out-of-print. Resource Library secures permission from copyright holders prior to digitizing and publishing their texts online.

Publicity articles and related texts

Resource Library also publishes publicity materials from institutional sources. In some instances Resource Library publishes for an exhibit an overview, catalog essay, other related texts and editor's notes with information excerpted from TFAO's catalogues.

Examples of articles and essays

An example of an article combined with a related essay is Georgia O'Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity (7/5/08) accompanied by "Miss O'Keeffe" - Photography and Fame; essay by Susan Danly (7/5/08). More examples of articles and essays are available at the Chronology of Articles of Essays.

All texts and images are published on a permanent basis, subject to Resource Library's policy on errors and omissions.

Special projects

TFAO's special projects initiative and conversion of analog text to digital files and online publication of scholarly texts grant program describe other essay discovery, permissions and processing programs in addition to the ongoing services of Resource Library. Other current grant programs for museums include video and audio initiatives and transcription of podcast files to text and online publication. TFAO seeks to discover and share with institutions further avenues for digitizing information and services.

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