Visual Resources Library
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repurposed slides from the VRC. Photographed by Andrew Bale.
The Visual Resources Library is part of the Art & Art History Department, assisting faculty and students with visual literacy issues and information for teaching and studying. The analog and digital includes over 200,000 mounted 35mm slides, special collection ephemera, including photographs, glaze recipes, newspaper clippings, sketchbooks, sketches and digital born material, besides 80,000+ digital image records spanning the History of Art and Architecture from prehistoric times to the present. The Visual Resources Library, based in Weiss Center for the Arts Room 222, offers services for digitizing images, art reference and image reference, image presentations, and assistance with Chicago Manual Style citation. We have a large monographic collection from donations that can be checked out and available in
Study Area
The study area is for individual and group work with six 24" iMacs; the current software is Office 365, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, MetaShotPpt, Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop CC, Lightroom, Adobe DC, InDesign, Illustrator and Premiere Pro, and 's Present feature for presentations and other visual literacy projects. It is set up for printing capability on the same floor. Open 8am-8pm weekdays with keycard access. Art & Art History Majors have priority over space and machines.