Visual Resources Collection
Curated by Patricia McRae-Baley
- HFA 259, 259A and 261
- Mon-Fri 8:00a to 5:00p
- The library observes all University holidays and official closings.
The holdings of the Visual Resources Collection at the Department of Art reside in two basic collections. The first consists of approximately 1,000,000 slides documenting Western and Non-Western monuments in the major media of drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, photography, graphics, manuscript illuminations, film arts, minor arts, Asian, African, pre-Columbian, Native American, Southeast Asian, Indian and Oceanic Art. Further collateral materials in the slide archive, such as maps, timelines, media techniques and methods, round out the archive. Various A/V equipment items (including a data projector, slide projectors, a TV/VCR unit, carousels and laser pointers) are available for check-out on a limited time basis. A small collection of videos and DVDs comprise a growing part of the VRC.
The second format of image delivery is digital and the VRC offers training in the use of digital images, notably through ARTstor. UNLV Lied Library provides a subscription to ARTstor, the Mellon digital image archive resource and makes it available to all UNLV personnel and students. ARTstor (www.artstor.org) is a growing archive of nearly 600,000 founded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2001. Through its subscription service, ARTstor provides art teaching images to faculty and students that are instrumental for the instruction of the history of art, studio art and architecture studies, as well as other disciplines such as history, foreign languages, anthropology and archaeology. The Mellon Foundation continues to support the development of ARTstor’s content, technical infrastructure, and software. A small but growing archive of local digital images populate the ATIC, the Art Teaching Image Collection created for department faculty and instructors on request to supplement ARTstor holdings. ATIC is currently available via a password protected database for faculty use only and plans are in place to host this collection in a section of ARTstor restricted for UNLV-only use. This will be announced here once it is implemented.
For digital image requests: download the digital image request form and bring that completed form with your materials to the VRC during regular hours (see below) for imaging services.
The collections are managed by full-time Visual Resources Curator Patricia McRae Baley, who also instructs in Art History survey courses.
