So who ya gonna call? OK which stock library ya gonna call? It's a perennial question for people looking beyond the most obvious candidates online.
Looking for credit lines in the media is one obvious place to start, find a library that has credit lines for works in the same areas that you can supply, that's a start.
Otherwise it's looking at the search facilities for members of the stock library trade bodies.
In the UK, that's BAPLA. and they have an A-Z search by name but maybe more useful is their category search.
http://www.bapla.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=44
In the US, it's PACA http://www.pacaoffice.org/ and the membership directory can be searched by category or name.
In Europe it's CEPIC who represent the trade associations http://www.cepic.org/directory so you can link to the association and search via them.
Getting the right images to the right libraries is an important part of the stock business.
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