• http://www.nitle.org/index.php/nitle/transformations

Roger C. Schonfeld, Manager of Research for Ithaka, has published on NITLE's recently-transformed Transformations a potentially-useful report called The Visual Resources Environment at Liberal Arts Colleges, which details a set of visits that he made to seven liberal arts colleges. He studied how visual resources in general and ArtSTOR in particular are used across the curriculum, with an emphasis on the role organizational and support structures play in wide-spread adoption. While the analysis is clear and concise, I found myself a bit worried about what useful generalizations can be made based on the small number of campuses visited. Schonfeld suggests that there are valuable lessons to be learned from how our campuses are managing the transition to digital images that can be applied to how we should approach the broader area of all digital assets (audio, video, multimedia). I would have welcomed a bit more fleshing out of that provocative statement. Perhaps a second report?