| Title: | Museum Educational Site Licensing Project papers |
| Dates: | 1983, 1992-1999, undated (bulk 1996-1998) |
| Number: | IA20019 |
| Creator/Collector: | Besser, Howard |
| Extent: | 4.77 linear feet (12 boxes) |
| Abstract: | Papers consist of reports, printed matter, correspondence, letters, memoranda, notes, surveys, agenda, minutes, legal documents, and photographs, 1983, 1992-1999 and undated (bulk 1996-1998), created and used by Howard Besser, Principal Investigator and other participants in the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project, sponsored in part by the Getty Art History Information Program. The records describe the genesis, development, execution, and evaluation of the project. |
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| Language: | Collection material is in English |
| Repository: | The Getty Research Institute Institutional Records and Archives 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688 (310) 440-7390 archives@getty.edu |
| Author: | Finding aid prepared by Sue Luftschein |
The Museum Educational Site Licensing (MESL) Project (1994-1997) was designed to explore the feasibility of networked distribution of digital museum content in educational settings. The Project grew out of two meetings held in March 1994, the first was sponsored by the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP), and the second by MUSE Educational Media. The AHIP meeting's purpose was to announce the launch of a digital imaging initiative; the MUSE meeting's purpose was to discuss the results of a study for developing model licensing agreements for digital media on CD-ROMs. Detailed planning for the MESL Project took place during the summer of 1994 and involved David Bearman (President, Archives and Museum Informatics), Howard Besser (Associate Professor, Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan), Eleanor Fink (Director, AHIP), Geoffrey Samuels (Director, MUSE Museum Multimedia Study Group), and Jennifer Trant (Consultant, and Manager of the Imaging Initiative, AHIP).
The MESL Project was originally framed as a testbed demonstration project to bring together museums and universities to explore the administrative, legal, economic, technical and educational issues surrounding networked distribution of museum content for educational use. The organizational phase of the project was supported by AHIP and MUSE Educational Media. The second phase of the Project was supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and focused on studying the costs and benefits of networked distribution of digital museum information for educational use.
The Project was officially launched in September 1994 with the initial call for participation. Over 80 museums and universities submitted applications; 6 cultural institutions and 7 universities were chosen by the Project's Managing Committee. The cultural institutions were: The Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA; George Eastman House; Harvard University Art Museums; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the National Gallery of Art; and the National Museum of American Art. In 1995, the Library of Congress was added. The 7 universities were: American University; Columbia University; Cornell University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; University of Maryland at College Park; University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint; and the University of Virginia.
Papers consist of reports, publications, correspondence, letters, memoranda, notes, forms, surveys and questionnaires, brochures, pamphlets, clippings, press releases, agenda, minutes, invoices, contracts, and photographs, 1983, 1992-1999 and undated (bulk 1996-1998), created and used by participants in the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project, and collected by Howard Besser, Principal Investigator. The records describe the genesis, development, execution, and evaluation of the Project. The bulk of the records describe the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded phase of the Project.
The reports and proposals included in the records outline the methodology for, and provide summary information about, the Project and its results during its Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded phase. Included are the grant proposal, written and submitted by Howard Besser, Principal Investigator, to the Mellon Foundation requesting funds to study the economic aspects of the MESL Project; technical reports submitted by the participating institutions; and two versions of the final report, The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image Data, authored by Howard Besser and Robert Yamashita (Project Manager).
The data gathering records describe the selection process for participating institutions and provide information about the design and results of data gathering. The materials contain the institutional applications of the University of Virginia, American University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Maryland at College Park, University of Michigan, Columbia University, the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, George Eastman House, Harvard University Art Museums, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, and the National Museum of American Art.
The evaluation process funded through the Mellon Foundation, which focused on the economic implications of the Project, is documented through surveys and questionnaires completed by the participating institutions. These records also contain documents describing the development of the evaluation process, the evaluation itself, and its results. These records contain correspondence between Besser, Jennifer Trant, Beth Sandore (consultant), and other individuals involved in the evaluation.
Finally, the records contain publications and presentations produced by Howard Besser and participants in the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project, provide information about administrative matters related to the execution of the Project (specifically the Project's Advisory Board, meeting minutes, budget and expense information, and personnel records), and contain research and background materials collected by Howard Besser.
These records are organized in six series:
Series I. Proposals and reports, 1992-1999;
Series II. Gathered data, 1994-1998;
Series III. Evaluation materials, 1995-1998 and undated;
Series IV. Publications and presentations, 1995-1999;
Series V. Administrative records, 1995-1999 and undated;
Series VI. Research and background materials, 1983, 1992, 1994-1998 and undated.
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[Cite the item and series (as appropriate)], Museum Educational Site Licensing Project Papers, 1983, 1992-1999 and undated, Howard Besser. Institutional Archives, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Finding aid no. IA20019.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifaia20019
The records in this finding aid originated in accession 2002.IA.05, donated by Howard Besser, Principal Investigator for the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project.
A preliminary inventory of the records was made by Institutional Archives staff prior to 2004. In 2005 Sue Luftschein rehoused the material and encoded this finding aid based, in part, on the original inventory.
The records arrived in no apparent order. The series arrangement in this finding aid is an attempt to reflect the areas of concern, and the products, of the project and its participants, based on the contents of the records themselves.
Some items, particularly faxes on thermal paper, were photocopied for preservation purposes.
| Series I. Proposals and reports, 1995-1999 (bulk 1996-1997) 1.25 linear feet (3 boxes) | |||||||||||
| Papers consist of reports, proposals and correspondence, 1992-1999, of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project that outline the methodology for, and provide summary information about, the Project and its results during its Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded phase. Included are the grant proposal, written and submitted by Howard Besser, Principal Investigator, to the Mellon Foundation requesting funds to study the economic aspects of the MESL Project; the museum and university technical reports, which describe the technical issues involved in the dissemination of MESL content and report on the experience; a draft of MESL Perspectives, published simultaneously with the final report, and providing "unofficial insights" into the Project; a draft of the final report submitted to the Mellon Foundation; and two versions of the final report, The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image Data, authored by Howard Besser and Robert Yamashita (Project Manager). The final report originally appeared in July 1998 and was reprinted in June 1999. | |||||||||||
| Some duplication appears within the records. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| These records are arranged in general chronological order. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-1 | 1 | Mellon—proposals, correspondence, 1995-1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-1 | 2 | Mellon grant, 1995-1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-1 | 3 | Original grant proposal, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-1 | 4-5 | Proposal drafts and supporting documents, 1996 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-1 | 6 | Proposal, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-1 | 7 | Proposal (annotated), circa 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-1 | 8 | MESL description, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-1 | 9 | Report to advisory board, November 18, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-1 | 10-11 | Project materials, 1. MESL information, 1996 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-1 | 12 | "MESL Data Dictionary," 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-1 | 13 | Technical report development, 1996-1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-1 | 14-20 | Museum technical reports, 1996-1997 [7 files] | |||||||||
| Project materials, volume 1: Management: | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-1 | 21-23 | 1997 [1-3 of 4 files] | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-2 | 1 | 1997 [4 of 4 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-2 | 2-10 | Museum technical reports (project materials, volume 2): 1996-1997 [9 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-2 | 11 | Content selection in the MESL Project, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-2 | 12-19 | University technical reports, 1997 [8 files] | |||||||||
| American University technical report: | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-2 | 20-22 | March 13, 1997 [1-3 of 4 files] | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 1 | March 13, 1997 [4 of 4 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 2 | Technical report, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 3 | Museum report draft, undated | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 4 | MESL terms and conditions, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 5-6 | Interim draft report and letter, 1997 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 7 | Final report draft introduction, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 8-9 | MESL Perspectives, 1997 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 10 | Proposed contents, final report, 1997 | |||||||||
| Final report: | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 11 | Project background and history, 1997-1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 12 | Terms and conditions–framing the issues, 1997-1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 13 | Terms and conditions–issues, 1997-1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 14 | Terms and conditions–summary of issues, 1997-1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 15 | Content selection, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 16 | Technical issues introduction, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 17 | MESL data dictionary and data export process, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 18 | Digital image production issues, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 19 | The MESL distribution process, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 20 | Use and impact, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 21 | MESL impact: museum perspective, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 22 | MESL impact: university perspective, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 23 | Summary report, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 24 | MESL casual user survey, July 11, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 25 | Executive summary, July 15, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 26 | Introduction [to Economics section], circa 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 27 | Annotated draft reports, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 28 | Final report notes, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 29-31 | Howard Besser and Robert Yamashita, The Cost of Digital Image Distribution, July 1998 [3 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 32 | Richard Ekman correspondence, 1998-1999 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-3 | 33-35 | Howard Besser and Robert Yamashita, The Cost of Digital Image Distribution, June 1999 [3 files] | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 1-3 | Howard Besser and Robert Yamashita, The Cost of Digital Image Distribution, June 1999 [3 files] | |||||||||
| General note | |||||||||||
| [2nd printing.] | |||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 4 | MESL art production guidelines, undated | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 5 | Robert Yamashita, Chapter 1, Background, undated | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 6 | Stephenson, Christie, Patricia McClung, eds. Delivering Digital Images: Cultural Heritage Resources for Education (The Museum Educational Site Licensing Project, Volume I) (Los Angeles: The Getty Information Institute, 1998). | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 7 | Stephenson, Christie, Patricia McClung, eds. Images Online: Perspectives on the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (The Museum Educational Site Licensing Project, Volume II) (Los Angeles: The Getty Information Institute, 1998). | |||||||||
| Series II. Gathered data, 1994-1998 1.25 linear feet (3 boxes) | |||||||||||
| Papers consist of surveys, reports, brochures, pamphlets, agendas, and correspondence, 1994-1998, of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project. The records describe the selection process for participating institutions and contain their applications (specifically, the University of Virginia, American University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Maryland at College Park, University of Michigan, Columbia University, the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, George Eastman House, Harvard University Art Museums, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, and the National Museum of American Art). The records also provide information about the design and results of data gathering among participating institutions and several other universities and information about and from participant meetings held in Santa Monica, California and Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||
| For additional information on the Santa Monica participant's meetings, see also Series V. Administrative records. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| These records are arranged generally by subject (calls for participation and applications, participation proposals, other information about educational institutions, slide library questionnaires and information, museum institutional profiles, participant meetings, technical data, and focus groups), and chronology. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 8 | Call for participation drafts, 1994 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 9 | MUSE letters, call for participation, 1994 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 10-11 | Educational institution applications, 1994 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 12 | Museum applications, 1994 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 13 | Miscellaneous MESL emails, 1995 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 14 | MESL meeting agenda, background information, 1995 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 15 | Patti McClung, conference call notes, 1995 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 16 | Conference call notes, 1995-1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 17 | Mellon documents, 1996 | |||||||||
| General note | |||||||||||
| [Notes and emails discussing the presentation of data and the preparation of the report to the Mellon Foundation.] | |||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 18 | MESL Participants, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 19 | About MESL, 1996 | |||||||||
| General note | |||||||||||
| [Includes calls for participation.] | |||||||||||
| University participation proposals: | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-4 | 20 | American University, 1994 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-5 | 1 | Columbia University, 1994 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-5 | 2 | Cornell University, 1994 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-5 | 3 | University of Michigan, 1994 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-5 | 4 | University of Virginia, 1994 | |||||||||
| Other information about educational institutions: | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-5 | 5 | University sites, 1995 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-5 | 6 | Harvard, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-5 | 7 | University of Maryland, 1994 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-5 | 8 | University of Michigan distribution cost report, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-5 | 9 | Correspondence re: University of Michigan role, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-5 | 10 | University of Oregon information, 1997 | |||||||||
| Slide library questionnaires and information: | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-5 | 11 | American University, 1997-1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-5 | 12-13 | Columbia University, 1997-1998 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-5 | 14-17 | University of California, Berkeley, Architecture Slide Library, 1997 [4 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-5 | 18-19 | University of California, Berkeley, Art History Slide Library, 1993-1997 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-5 | 20 | University of Illinois, 1997-1998 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 1 | University of Oregon, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 2 | Museum institutional profiles, 1994 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 3 | George Eastman House, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 4 | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1997 | |||||||||
| Participant meetings: | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 5-6 | Participant meetings reports, 1995-1996 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 7 | Participants meeting, American University, May 13-15, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 8 | Agenda, Santa Monica meeting, December 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 9-11 | Discussion drafts, Santa Monica meeting, December 1996 [3 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 12 | Survey forms, 1996 | |||||||||
| General note | |||||||||||
| [Drafts of requests for information for technical reports.] | |||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 13 | Museum "baseline," 1996 | |||||||||
| General note | |||||||||||
| [Notes re: requests for information for technical reports.] | |||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 14 | Server "monitoring," 1997 | |||||||||
| General note | |||||||||||
| [Emails regarding collection of data from MESL servers.] | |||||||||||
| Focus groups: | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 15 | CAA focus group, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 16 | Focus group notes, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 17-18 | Focus group notes and questionnaires, 1998 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 19 | Focus group transcripts, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 20 | Focus group report (draft), 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-6 | 21 | Focus group notes, undated | |||||||||
| Series III. Evaluation materials, 1995-1998, undated 0.82 linear feet (2 boxes) | |||||||||||
| Papers consist of correspondence, letters, notes, reports, surveys, and questionnaires, 1995-1998 and undated, created by participants, including Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant, in the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project, that describe the development of the evaluation process, the evaluation itself, and its results during the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded phase of the Project. These records include evaluations of use, but are specifically focused on the economic implications of the Project. During this phase of the project, Beth Sandore, Coordinator, Digital Imaging Initiative and Associate Professor, University of Illinois, was hired as a consultant. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| These records are arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 1 | Letter re: project evaluation proposal, 1995 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 2-3 | Evaluation surveys, 1995 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 4-5 | Evaluation, 1995-1996 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 6 | MESL evaluation, 1995-1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 7 | Emails and information re: evaluation, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 8 | Workplans, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 9-10 | Evaluation committee, 1996 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 11 | Beth Sandore's questionnaires, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 12 | Measurement responses, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 13 | Emails, notes re: evaluation, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 14 | Workshop on user needs and assessment and evaluation, DL '96, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 15-16 | Miscellaneous evaluation reports, 1996 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 17 | Online surveys, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 18-19 | Instructor/Student/Researcher evaluation and questionnaires, 1996-1997 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 20-22 | Art image database instructor and student evaluation report, 1997 [3 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-7 | 23 | Schedule for MESL evaluation visit, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, February 10-11, 1997 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-8 | 1 | Evaluation conference call, 4/29, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-8 | 2-6 | Post-questionnaires, 1997 [5 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-8 | 7 | Site visits, notes, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-8 | 8-9 | Agenda, reports, notes, Charlottesville meeting, May 1997 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-8 | 10 | Charlottesville presentation, May 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-8 | 11 | Pre/post questionnaires, technical reports, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-8 | 12 | Evaluation conference call emails, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-8 | 13 | Evaluation questionnaires, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-8 | 14 | Instructor and student evaluation report, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-8 | 15 | Options analysis, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-8 | 16-17 | "The Use of an Art Image Database in the Classroom: Instructor and Student Evaluation Report," 1997 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-8 | 18 | Human subjects, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-8 | 19 | Miscellaneous slide library notes, 1998, undated | |||||||||
| Series IV. Publications and presentations, 1995-1999 0.4 linear feet (2 boxes) | |||||||||||
| Papers consist of publication drafts, publication galleys, photocopies of articles and book chapters, and typescripts of presentations, 1995-1999, produced by participants in the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project. The general subjects of all the documents are issues, challenges, and results of the Project. Many of the articles were printed from the Getty Art History Information Program's website. The majority of the presentations were authored and delivered by Howard Besser, Principal Investigator. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| These records are arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-8 | 20-21 | MESL produced articles, 1995-1996 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-8 | 22 | "Technical Issues in the Distribution of Museum Images and Textual Data to Universities," 1996 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 1 | MESL papers, 1996-1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 2 | Chapters from The Wired Museum, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 3 | Final copies of MESL final report articles, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 4 | Time and Bits panel, 1997-1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 5 | Digital libraries/metadata, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 6 | CIL 98 metadata workshop, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 7 | CIL 98 digital library talk, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 8 | "UCB Mellon Grant Studying MESL: What Have We Learned about Image Databases and Universities?" circa 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 9 | Visual Resources proof, 1999 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 10-11 | Annotated copies of Visual Resources articles, 1999 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 12-14 | Working copies, Visual Resources, vol. 14 no. 4, 1999 [3 files] | |||||||||
| Series V. Administrative records, 1995-1999, undated 0.54 linear feet (3 boxes) | |||||||||||
| Papers consist of minutes, agendas, reports, invoices, contracts, press releases, forms, printed matter and photographs, 1995-1999 and undated, created or used by participants in the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project. The meeting minutes and agenda include information on the Project's Advisory Board—its members, meetings, and reports presented by Howard Besser. These records also include the official minutes of an MESL participant's meeting, and documents presented for discussion at a participant's meeting held in Santa Monica, California that deal with economic issues. Much of the budget and expense information records pertain to the preparation of budget reports for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The personnel records are primarily concerned with the hiring and employment of Beth Sandore, Coordinator, Digital Imaging Initiative and Associate Professor, University of Illinois, as a consultant to assist with the evaluation process. | |||||||||||
| For additional information on the Santa Monica participant's meetings, see also Series II. Gathered data. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| These records are arranged by subject. | |||||||||||
| Meeting minutes and agenda: | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 15 | Advisory Board invitations, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 16 | Advisory committee, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 17 | Presentation to Advisory Board, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 18 | Revised report to Advisory Board, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 19 | Information for Mellon meeting, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 20 | Report to Advisory Board, November 18, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 21 | Advisory Board, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 22 | Advisory Board materials, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-9 | 23 | Advisory Board materials, 1998 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 1- | Official minutes, MESL meeting, December 1996 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 3 | IP licensing and museum/university perceived needs, 1996 | |||||||||
| Budget and expense information: | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 4 | Letter to [Richard] Ekman, 1995, 1998, undated | |||||||||
| General note | |||||||||||
| [Background budget materials.] | |||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 5 | Prepping for [Richard] Ekman, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 6 | Distribution costs report, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 7 | Dollar awards to MESL universities, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 8 | Budget and expenses, 1996-1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 9 | Mellon expenses, 1996-1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 10 | Budget and cost information, 1997-1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 11 | Budget, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 12 | Crowne Plaza hotel information, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 13 | Letters and invoices re: distribution of final report, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 14 | Publishing information, 1999 | |||||||||
| Personnel: | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 15 | Associate Specialist hiring, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 16 | Hiring, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 17 | Consultant information, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 18 | Sandore contracts, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 19 | Sandore administrative, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 20 | Beth Sandore, consultant, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 21 | Personnel, undated | |||||||||
| Miscellaneous: | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 22 | Short description of project, undated | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 23 | Press release, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 24 | Press releases, and Chronicle of Higher Education article, 1995, 1999 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 25-27 | Human subjects, policies, emails, 1995-1996 [3 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 28 | Berkeley IRB, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 29 | Miscellaneous to file, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-10 | 30 | Miscellaneous emails, 1997-1998 [1 of 2] | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 1 | Miscellaneous emails, 1997-1998 [2 of 2] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 2 | Miscellaneous administrative records and notes, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 3 | Miscellaneous information, Santa Monica meeting, December 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 4 | NEH grant application guidelines, undated | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 5 | Art production, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 6 | Book recall and return receipts, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 7 | Scanning, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 8 | [48 unidentified color photographs], undated | |||||||||
| Series VI. Research and background materials, 1983, 1992, 1994-1998, undated (bulk 1996-1998) 0.51 linear feet (2 boxes) | |||||||||||
| Papers consist of printed matter and correspondence, 1983, 1992, 1994-1998 and undated, collected by Howard Besser, Principal Investigator of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project. The materials are primarily copies of articles and book chapters, used for background research for the development of the Project. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| These records are arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 9 | ARLIS/NA standards for art libraries and fine arts slide collections, 1983 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 10 | Cummings, Anthony, Marcia L. Witte, William G. Bowen, Laura O. Lazarus, Richard H. Ekman, University Libraries and Scholarly Communication (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, November 1992) | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 11-12 | Research materials, 1994, 1996-1997 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 13 | Digital watermarking, 1995 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 14 | Virage, 1995 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 15 | "Cost Centers and Measures in the Networked Information Value Chain," October 31, 1995 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 16 | "The Advances of Technology," 1995 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 17 | Syllabi, 1995-1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 18 | Allerton Institute, research forum on digital libraries, 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 19 | "Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure," 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 20 | African Art and the Virtual Museum (University of Virginia syllabus), 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 21 | "Yale University Library's Project Open Book", 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 22 | Participant list, "Libraries, People and Change: A Research Forum on Digital Libraries," 1996 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 23 | Miscellaneous articles and newsletters, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 24 | AMICO information, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-11 | 25-27 | AMICO launch meeting, 1997 [3 files] | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-12 | 1-2 | Miscellaneous notes and research materials, 1997-1998 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-12 | 3-4 | Columbia slide library, 1996, 1998 [2 files] | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-12 | 5 | Log files, 1997 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-12 | 6 | Museum Digital Licensing Collective, talk and information, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-12 | 7 | "The Making of American II Testbed Project White Paper," 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-12 | 8 | Copyright and fair use town meeting program, 1998 | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-12 | 9 | Slide libraries–examples from the web, undated | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-12 | 10 | Digital show and tell agenda, undated | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-12 | 11 | Saska brochures, undated | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-12 | 12 | "Library Services in Theory and Context. Chapter 11: Allocation I: Resources, Priorities and Political Processes," undated | |||||||||
| 2002.IA.05-12 | 13 | Graduate research questionnaire, undated | |||||||||