  urlLink Digital Images Come of Age "In recent years, large collections of digital images have become available for licensing, and institutions have created a growing body of digital images from their own collections.
Subject specialist librarians from The University of California libraries as well as UC visual resource curators advocated for the California Digital Library to acquire several commercial collections of images, create a shared image database, and purchase presentation software for classroom use and formal visual analysis. The CDL has extensive experience in licensing and delivering textual materials such as electronic journals and abstracting and indexing databases, but digital images introduce a range of new issues for management and delivery.
. . .
" 
