About the Visual Resources
Library Collections
Slide Collection
General art collection: The Visual Resources Library's slide collection contains
well known works of art such as painting, sculpture, architecture, design, photographs,
and illuminated manuscripts.
The slide collection also contains slides of costume, anthropology,
political science, natural history, geography, and anatomy. These images represent
scenes and artifacts of the western world, Oceana, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Medieval manuscripts: The Visual Resources Library owns slides of medieval
manuscripts in the collections of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Pierpont
Morgan Library, New York.
Picture Collections
Kalamazoo Public Library Picture Collection: A collection
of thousands of images from magazines, newspapers, books, and photographs collected
by the Kalamazoo Public Library from 1948-1996 represents the physical sciences
worldwide culture, historical events, and from 1900-1990 as well as.
Visual Resources Library, located in Sangren Hall, houses
University Libraries' slide, image CD-ROMs, and flat picture collections. The
Library collects images in all subject areas.
ARTstor: ARTstor
is a digital image database containing more than 300,000 art images and descriptive
information for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. Among
the collections represented in ARTStor at the John C. and Susan L Huntinton Archive
of Buddhist Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Uffizi Gallery, the Herb
Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at the Cooper Union School of Art,
and the National History Museum, London. ARTStor also provides the tools to create
presentations using ARTStor images combined with images from users personal collections.
AccuNet/AP: "The
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing the Associated
Press' current year's photogreport and a selection of images from their vast
negative and print library dating from the 1840s. Today, the Multimedia Archive
contains over 700,000 photos, most of which are contemporary images made since
late 1995, and grows daily as hundreds of new photos enter the Multimedia Archive
from AP's worldwide picture report." This database is available to one user
at a time.
CAMIO:
CAMIO contains over 23,000 images of works of art representing a broad range
of fine and decorative arts from well-known collections including the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Lost Angeles County Museum of
Art, the Asia Society, and the Victorian and Albert Museum. All works are represented
by a high-resolution image and description. Some images also have additional
views plus sound, video, and curatorial notes. Images are available for use classroom
use, research, educational web sites, and other forms of educational projects.
This tool is designed for use in studio art, art history, anthropology, religion,
and other courses in the humanities. CAMIO replaces the AMICO Library.
CD-ROMs: There is an image-intensive CD-ROM collection available
in the Visual Resources Library. Search the library catalog to find CD-ROM materials.
History of Costume and Architecture, Interiors, and Furniture: Slide
Presentations, Publishers' slide sets History of Costume and Architecture, Interiors,
and Furniture are available to patrons in the Visual Resources Library. In Fall
2002 images and text from these slide sets will be available on CD-ROM. Images
are arranged to coincide with the chapters laid out by Slide Presentations in
the slide sets. Each chapter represents a stylistic period. For assistance in
using the CD-ROM for classroom or individual use, please contact Miranda Haddock
at (269) 387-4113 or miranda.haddock@wmich.edu. Written instructions for using
the CD-ROMs also appear under Using the CD-ROMs in Digital Transfer of Slides
to CD-ROM.
Digital
Transfer of Slides to CD-ROM: Learn more about
this project and how to create image intensive CD-ROMs.
Costume
Bibliography: A web-based annotated bibliography of tried and true
print materials and visual media relating to the history, sociology aspects,
construction, and care of costume and clothing.
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