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American and New England Studies Creates an Image Database
Because Kodak is no longer making slide projectors and soon will no longer be supporting existing projectors, ANES along with USM's Art Department have begun to build a digital image database. The ANES database, started in 2005, now contains 900 images. Sharon Sauerwald was recently hired to manage this project. She is the Image Curator for the Art Department database as well. That database contains 4000 images at this time. The goal is to combine the two databases and have them available on the USM network for faculty and student use.
Sharon received her second bachelor's degree from USM's Art department in Art Education with a minor in Art History. As a work-study student, she cared for the Art Department's 55,000 slides. As Image Curator, she oversees 4 work-study students who enter metadata and scan images into the databases. In addition, she researches images for faculty; assists faculty in putting PowerPoint lectures together, and cares for both slide collections. Currently, two ANES faculty, four Art History and two Art faculty, one Classics and one Philosophy professor are using digital images. Images used on the ANES web site come from the database.
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