Scott Bell
In an era of shrinking revenues and increased enrollments, the California State University system has turned to networked multimedia databases and collaborative learning strategies as possible components of a new approach to higher education. Members of the Cal. State Long Beach Art Department have developed a model project which relies on a highly trained core of graduate students who work with Art History faculty in the deveolopment of computer based tutorials. The digital images for these tutorials are the building blocks for, what will eventually be, a "Virtual Library" of images tied to data. The author described the strategic approach to building a constituency for the project, and a tactical guide for its implementation.