About the Collections...

ANALOG SLIDE COLLECTION:
The Visual Resources Center houses a comprehensive collection of over 325,000 fine art and architecture slides. The slide collection covers a broad range of mediums, periods, and geographic areas.

Slides are arranged by country, the artists are then listed alphabetically according to their medium: sculpture, painting, textiles, graphic design, photography, installation, video, performance, etc. .

Architecture slides are arranged by period: ancient, medieval, renaissance and modern,etc. and then arranged alphabetically by country, city and by location of the site.

DIGITAL IMAGE COLLECTION:
The Visual Resources Center has recently purchased LUNA Insight, a digital asset management program that will be used to manage our growing digital image collection.  Future plans are to add to this collection by scanning images from sources such as books and photographs.

When the digital image collection becomes available to the College of Fine Arts in the Fall 2007 semester, users will have access to the VRC's licensed collection of 6,000 digital images as well as access to over 200,000 digital images of art, architecture, photography, maps, and cultural history related materials from an image consortium hosted through LUNA Imaging.

Meanwhile, we highly encourage our patrons to take advantage of the university's subscription to the Catalog of Art Images Online (CAMIO), an online image collection of approximately 90,000 works of art from around the world. This new database not only supports art history, studio art, & design departments, it also provides rich context for history, religion, and other humanities programs. CAMIO can be accessed from the Architecture and Fine Arts Library homepage.

MORE DIGITAL IMAGE RESOURCES:
For a helpful list of resources, please visit our Digital Resources page.

DIGITAL IMAGE COLLECTION UPDATE
(April 2007)

DIGITAL IMAGE DATABASE – CURRENT TIMELINE FOR 2007:

• JANUARY/APRIL: VRC administrative beta testing of database.
• ARPIL: Faculty testing pushed back due to problems with the database template. Selection of a small group of six SAAH faculty volunteers to beta test client side this summer will take place (completed).
• MAY-AUGUST: Testing to begin with the SAAH faculty volunteers. Digitizing of six classes to commence.
• FALL 2007 SEMESTER: Open database for searches to the CFA faculty, students, and staff.

IMAGE ESTIMATES:
Fall semester 2007 (and after the first round of faculty beta-testing):
approx. 211,000 digital images of art, architecture, maps & humanities-related items will be available to CFA patrons.

IMAGE BREAKDOWN INCLUDES:

• Approx. 200,000 digital images from an academic image consortium
  that will be made available to our users via our database.
• Approx. 6,200 digital images purchased/licensed by the VRC.
• Approx. 5,500 preliminary digital images scanned & cataloged by the VRC.

IMAGE ORDERS:
VRC will begin working with SAAH faculty to prioritize image orders Fall 2007/Spring 2008 at the end of the Summer 2007 semester. We will begin this process with the first six SAAH faculty volunteers.

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Luna Imaging, Inc

Catalog of Art Images
Online