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Collection and Facilities
In addition to the slide collection, the facility includes the Hyslop Reading Room, the Lord Library, which is a non-circulating library comprised of about 5,300 books, and a photograph collection of about 20,000 images. Approximately 10,000 slides are accessioned each year to provide visual materials for the courses offered, for general growth of the collection, and to replace slides of poor quality. While we continuously update and enlarge the holdings of the slide library, the VRC is now also in the process of making digital images, both for course-based web pages for student review, and for classroom projection. A selection of more than 5,000 images, which were chosen for Art History course reviews and are suitable for web display, have been included in a database mounted by the Penn State University Libraries, called Art, Architecture and Landscape Pictures. This database, available to anyone with a Penn State user ID, can be accessed on the University Libraries' Web site at http://www.libraries.psu.edu through the E-Resource List A-Z. ARTstor, another digital image resource available through the University Libraries’ E-Resource list, provides a substantial database of digital images to support teaching and research in visual arts and related disciplines. The VRC is a member of the Visual Resources Association, an international organization of image management professionals. |
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Last Updated: Friday, February 15, 2008
The Visual Resources Centre
contains a collection of approximately 400,000 35mm slides of works of
art, architecture, and other didactic materials, ranging from prehistoric
to contemporary times. It is the primary teaching and research collection
for the faculty of the Department of Art History, thus reflecting the
teaching focus of the department.