Welcome to the Visual Resources Center (VRC) web page! The mission of the VRC is help users locate images either from our own collection or other useful online collections, provide classroom and technical support to faculty and students, and promote visual literacy. Our collection includes work of art, photography, as well as film. The Visual Resources Center is located in the basement of the Random Academic Library.
Students and faculty have access to our extensive image gallery through CONTENTdm,1 our online visual repository, and are also encouraged to read our blog2 for news about new services or current changes within the visual resources academic community.
Please check-in with our blog to find out more about local events in the arts, or upcoming lectures and conferences on campus.
The VRC has access to two great resources for locating digital images:
ARTstor, a digital library hosting millions of images available to scholars, artists and librarians.
CONTENTdm (the VRC repository), our own image gallery which hosts over 25,000 images. The collection includes photographs, works of art, and also architectural plans.
Other useful resources:
Getty Open Content Program, hosted by the Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute. The site has over 10,000 images, and also offers useful information about fair use and tools for proper citation.
Oxford Art Online, which hosts Grove Art Online and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. The site offers images and other tools to assist in your research. Users can also browse through Artists' Books and various galleries.
For those interested in learning more about issues regarding copyright, fair use, and image management the Visual Resources Association webpage is a great place to begin. The staff of the VRC is also available to assist anyone with any questions about proper use. Contact VRC@randomacademiclibrary.edu for a private consultation, or visit the center during our business hours:
Monday 8-5
Tuesday 8-5
Wednesday 8-5
Thursday 8-5
Friday 10-2
During exam periods the VRC will have extended hours. Please check the website the week before for our hours of business.
Starting a research project?
The Random Academic Library website has a number of sources that may be useful to those who need help with conducting research. Please visit the Art Research Guide page to learn more about possible databases and reference materials that are available through the university. The library also provides searching tips to help you locate the information you need.
There are many scholarly arts databases that are readily available to artists, historians and art lovers. Art Full Text, Bibliography of the History of Art, and Art Index Retrospective are three that are very popular.
Looking for Technology Support?
For remote access, please visit the Random Academic Library webpage to learn how to connect from home.
The VRC and the GSLIS Tech Lab also offer tutorials, workshops, and webinars to faculty and staff. If you have always wanted to brush up on your presentation skills, or learn great tricks for mobile devices, please visit their website to learn more about image management!
Bibliography
1 The Visual Resources Collection at Reed College, is one of many who uses CONTENTdm to store and share their digital collection. Their collection also includes Artists' Books, which may be useful for Studio Art students and staff.
2 The Williams College Art Department Visual Resource Center maintains a blog that features information about new content, news from the visual resources community, and technical services.↩
Journal Title Overlap Study of Four Major Online Art Indexes, The Bulletin of the Japan Art Documentation Society no. 13 (March 2006): 44-49
Along with the libraries/Visual Resource centers used in the blog, the following also provide interesting services to their communities: RISD, Lewis & Clark, and Ithaca College.
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