This book is about taking a professional approach to organising the photographs that you make or collect, whether for personal or business reasons - organising them in such a way that you can find what you are looking for with a minimum effort and at a minimum expense.
It's about applying some principles that a lot of people spent a lot of time working out. It's about avoiding some of the pitfalls that others have already taken.
Broadly speaking, It's for librarians or anyone who manages a picture library - even if that library is a strictly personal one, It's starting point is designed for those with no library experience or formal study of librarianship, so it explains terms and practices that would already be familiar to an experienced librarian. However, it will be useful to librarians who are not visual media specialists.
Although the book is about taking a business like approach to solving problems and about applying principles, it doesn't prescribe a rigid approach. It isn't a book of rules, or even about librarianship itself, It's about being able to use your pictures - all your pictures - whether you just want to show them to a friend or whether you are filling a rush order for stock photos from a national publication.
This book is about taking a professional approach to organising the photographs that you make or collect, whether for personal or business reasons - organising them in such a way that you can find what you are looking for with a minimum effort and at a minimum expense.
It's about applying some principles that a lot of people spent a lot of time working out. It's about avoiding some of the pitfalls that others have already taken.
Broadly speaking, It's for librarians or anyone who manages a picture library - even if that library is a strictly personal one, It's starting point is designed for those with no library experience or formal study of librarianship, so it explains terms and practices that would already be familiar to an experienced librarian. However, it will be useful to librarians who are not visual media specialists.
Although the book is about taking a business like approach to solving problems and about applying principles, it doesn't prescribe a rigid approach. It isn't a book of rules, or even about librarianship itself, It's about being able to use your pictures - all your pictures - whether you just want to show them to a friend or whether you are filling a rush order for stock photos from a national publication.