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Visual Resources Center

Helpful Links

The VRC digital image collection is available for all MU faculty, students, and staff through the eLearning Commons. For information about using the search engine, please click here.

AHA VRC Order Forms for requesting scans (AHA faculty and grad students only at this point): Page 1, Page 2

Finding, Creating, Editing, Using, and Organizing Digital Images. A presentation (in pdf format) full of tips, links, and helpful information for anyone who has or will have a collection of digital images of their own. Has many active links.

Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web from Karen Bouchard, Scholarly Resources Librarian for Art and Architecture, Brown University

PowerPoint
PowerPoint Quick Reference Guide from Microsoft (pdf)
PowerPoint for Macs, a How-To Prepared by Julia Simic, University of Oregon VRC. References PPT 2004 but helpful for any version (pdf)

Ellis Library
Library Guides for Art History, Architectural Studies, Art
To access Ellis library's subscription online image databases from off-campus, go through the library's gateway page http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/.
Index of Christian Art
ARTstor You must register and login with ARTstor to be able to download any images but you can search/browse without registering.
CAMIO
Oxford Art Online

Googling Images
Google Images Google recently added the option to upload a specific image, or URL for a specific image, and search on the image alone. Sometimes the results are good matches, sometimes they find nothing, and sometimes they are off base. The latter selections are sometimes quite interesting to see what Google Images comes up with as matches. A similar search engine is TinEye.

The following links are helpful explanations and tips about using Google Search
How to use Google Search
Google 2.0: Google Universal Search
Google Universal Search Expands

Short list of copyright-free image websites. For more see the links in the white box on the right-hand side of this page
Mother of All Art and Art History Links Pages
WorldImages
AICT Art Images for College Teaching
CLAROS ancient Greece and Rome
Wikimedia Commons
VADS Visual Arts Data Service, 100,000 copyright cleared

Scanning and editing images
Understanding Digital Images University of Reading, Visual Resources Center (pdf)
Ken Watson, "All About Digital Photos" This site includes a brief and helpful essay titled The Myth of DPI

Helpful Links about Copyright
Copyright Quick Guide from the Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office
Fair Use from the Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office
Crash Course in Copyright from the University of Texas
Copyright information from the Library of Congress
Copyright and Art issues, Christine Sundt

VRC Description

The Visual Resources Center houses a large number of images of works of art and architecture spanning the distance from prehistory through contemporary art. The VRC's holdings comprise the following collections:

• Slide library, consisting of approximately 135,000 35mm slides, housed in Pickard Hall
• A growing digital image database available online to faculty and students on campus, maintained at the Parker Hall Imaging Lab
• Anderson Photo Collection, containing over 80,000 photographs from Alinari and prints from the private English collections of the Courtauld Institute
• Department photo archive, consisting of approximately 18,000 images mounted and archived for classroom use
• Lantern slide collection, consisting of approximately 10,000 lantern slides, most dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries
• Marburger Index, a microfiche collection of more than 520,000 images of German art

Instructions for Use

The slide collection may be used by:

• MU Faculty
• MU Students
• Museum of Art and Archaeology Staff
• Museum of Art and Archaeology Docents

Slides may be checked out for a 24-hour period. There is a late fee of $0.25 for each day a slide is not returned. In addition, a charge of $6.00 will be applied for all lost or damaged slides. Duplication of slides is not permitted. Please contact the Curator (department office: 573-882-6711) of Visual Resources for access to any of the VRC collections.

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