THE ESSENTIAL RESOURCES FOR VISUAL RESOURCES PROFESSIONALS Images [ Images | General Reference | Cataloging | Copyright | Technology/Software | Products and Services | Professional Associations/Organizations | Electronic Discussion Groups | Publishers and Presses ] ACSAA Color Slide Project Housed a t the University of Michigan, this non-profit project supplies images of the art and architecture of India and other South and Southeast Asian countries for educational and research purposes. The collection of high-quality images consists of approximately 15,000 slides available for purchase at a modest price. http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/acsaa/acsaa.html AICT (Art Images for College Teaching) "A royalty-free image exchange reosurce fo r the eduational community," this project contains images spanning the entire history of art, including non-Western art. The site contains select images from the complete collection of images available on Kodak Photo-CDs. Arrangements can be made to borrow and download the disks for non-commercial purposes. http://www.arthist.umn.edu/aict/html/ AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium) A not-for-profit organization of nearly 30 institutions with art collections, AMICO has created a digital library of images and documentation. The AMICO library will contain more than 50,000 works from its contributing members when it is made available for licensing in 1999. http://www.amico.org/ Archivision An architecture and visual arts photo library supplying high quality images for educational and commercial usage. Their archive consists of over 50,000 slides complete with documentation and stock photographs. Archivision also provides access to Masterpieces in Video (art education videos) and photographic services. http://www.archivision.com/ Artchive More than 2,000 high-quality scans of artwork by Mark Harden. From Abakanowicz to Wyeth. CD of the archive available to patrons. http://artchive.com/ftp_site.htm Art on File Company supplying more than 6,000 images of public art, architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design for purchase by educational organizations and selected art and design professionals. http://www.artonfile.com/ Bridgeman Art Library International collection featuring more than 800 museums and galleries and spanning the history of art. The site includes a searchable database consisting of thumbnail images and documentation. Requests for orders can also be made from the site. www.bridgemanart.com Clearinghouse of Image Databases Online directory of image databases housed at the University of Arizona on a gopher server. The scope of the project is to gather technical and descriptive information about imaging projects as information resources. The primary goal is to list projects; these projects are multi-disciplinary, mulit-media, and international in nature. This site does not link directly to the projects, it only provides information on them. http://www.arthist.umn.edu/aict/html/ Corbis More than 1.5 million of this company's 25 million historical, contemporary, celebrity, and fine art images are available online for creative professionals and online consumers through a variety of products and services. They represent a variety of perspectives, eras, geographical regions, and sources. http://www.corbis.com/ Davis Art Slides Image source that covers art and architecture from numerous periods and regions. The collection of more than 40,00 images illustrates works from a number of American and foreign institutions and is available for purchase in slide sets. http://www.davisart.com/Portal/DesktopDefault.aspx Foto Search Stock Photography Allows users to search from more than fifty quality stock photography vendors at one site. They can also find royalty-free clipart pictures, illustrations, motion stock video clips, vector maps, and background clip art imagery http://www.fotosearch.com Gateway to Art History Compiled for use with Gardner's Art Through the Ages. http://www.harbrace.com/art/gardner/ Hartill Art Associates Provider of high-quality images covering architecture, sculpture, and the decorative arts from Pre-historic to contemporary periods. The collection of images numbers more than 22,000 and is available for purchase by educators, researchers, and media professionals. http://www3.sympatico.ca/archimages/ Image Provider Directory The unofficial, abbreviated Directory of Image Providers, which identifies distributors of images, both analog and digital, in the United States, United Kingdom, and Continental Europe. This is a supplement to the more comprehensive Image Buyers' Guide sponsored by the VRA. http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~beetham/vendor.htm Malcolm Lubliner Photography Comprehensive photographic service covering topics in architecture, industry, technology, advertising, envitonment, forensic, and stock imagery. Images are available for commerical, personal, and educational uses. http://www.cityvisions.com/ Media for the Arts With a collection of more than 30,000 color slides, this company also distributes videos and CD-ROMs. These visual materials offer coverage of the fine and performing arts: architecture, painting, sculpture, archeology, and music. http://www.art-history.com/ Museums Online As a packager, conveyer, and broker of museum images and related products, this group works with cultural institutions to target educaional institutions, commercial clients, and the public-at-large. The site includes a searchable catalog of images along with a magazine complete with exhibition schedule, featured artist, and an interactive jigsaw puzzle. http://www.museums-online.com/site/sommaire.html Pictures of Record Publisher of archaeological slide sets designed for educational and museum use. Topics include sites, artifacts, techniques, and ethnographic subjects. http://www.picturesofrecord.com/ Saskia: Services for Historians of Art Commercial service that offers visual materials for teaching and research. They provide high-quality slides and digital images to educational institutions throughout the world. Their photography covers art throughout the world, with special emphasis on images of western art from major European museums. http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/ SILS Art Image Database This is a PROTOTYPE database of art and architectural images, and images of museum objects in digital form. It allows you to locate, and view, works of art. Goal is to be useful to anyone with an interest in exploring art, architecture and museum images. The prototype is being developed for a research project, funded by the United States Department of Education. http://www.si.umich.edu/Art_History/ SPIRO The visual online public access catalog to the collection of the Architecture Slide Library at the University of California at Berkeley. The searchable database has more than 32,000 records, complete with images and documentation. http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html Universal Color Slide A mail order catalog company supplying high quality art educational products, including slides, slide sets, reproductions, videos, and CD-ROMs. Slide sets, which correspond with some of the major art history survey textbooks, as well as a variety of movements, mediums, subjects from Pre-historic to contemporary periods, can be purchased. http://www.universalcolorslide.com/ University of Michigan Museum of Art Features an online searchable database of 12,000 objects. http://www.umma.umich.edu/ WebMuseum! A collection of exhibitions of varying quality, ranging from specialized to general interest, including Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry, Paul Cézanne, Art of the 20th century, and the general Famous Paintings exhibit. http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/ General Reference [ Images | General Reference | Cataloging | Copyright | Technology/Software | Products and Services | Professional Associations/Organizations | Electronic Discussion Groups | Publishers and Presses ] Art Index, Abstracts, and Art Retrospective Subscription-based bibliographic databases that cite articles from more than 313 international publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Topics covered include the fine and decorative arts, architecture, history, graphic arts, and archaeology. http://www.hwwilson.com/ ArtSource A gathering point for networked resources on Art and Architecture. The content is diverse and includes pointers to resources around the net, as well as original materials submitted by librarians, artists, and art historians, etc. This site is intended to be selective, rather than comprehensive. http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/welcome.html Getty Information Institute (formerly) Getty Art History Information Program The Information Institute aims to encourage collaboration among scholars and facilitate access to art historical information. Here you can check out many projects, including the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), a thesaurus of art-historical terminology; Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), a database of artists' and architects' names in both standard and variant forms; Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), a database of geographic place names organized into hierarchical clusters; and A Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings, guidelines for describing architectural drawings and archives. You can also search the databases of Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, RILA, and the Pronenance Index Sales Catalogues. http://www.getty.edu/ Grove Dictionary of Art Subscription-based reference resource offering 41,000 articles on the art and culture of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific. http://www.groveart.com/index.html?authstatuscode=200 International Directory of Art Libraries A listing from the International Federation of Library Associates. This Directory is provided as a means to access more than 3,000 libraries and library departments with specialized holdings in art, architecture, and archaeology throughout the world. Data recorded for each institution includes address, telephone and tele-facsimile numbers, hours of operation, annual closings, and listings of professional personnel. It also includes electronic mail addresses of individual librarians and direct web links to institutional home pages. http://aaln.org/ifla-idal/ Library of Congress Directory (includes their image collections) This is it, the great one online. You can also search LOCIS (Library of Congress Information System) via Telnet or using a new Z39.50 fill-in form, LC MARVEL (the Library's Gopher-based Campus-Wide Information System), the POW/MIA database, and others. http://www.aaln.org/?dl=1 Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I Contains 6,204 terms and cross references indexing visual materials. A second thesaurus with 600 terms covers genre and physical characteristic topics. http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/ Mother of All Art History Links A collection of website links related to art and the study of the arts. Originally created by Andrew Midkiff, this web site is now maintained by Patrick Young, Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan. Following are the categories within which one can find relevant links: A Sampling of Art History Departments Research Resources Resources for Visual Collections Image Collections and Online Art Fine Art Schools and Departments Art Museums Textual and Linguistic Resources New Media Art and Resources http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother University of Michigan Media Union Library Source for valuable digital resources focusing on art and architecture. Some of these resources have restricted access to U of M faculty, students, and staff. http://www.ummu.umich.edu/about/tour/index.htmlindex.html Visual Resources Facilities Contains statistics, floor plans and pictures of VR facilites from a limited list of institutions. http://www.middlebury.edu/~slides/vrfacilities/ Cataloging [ Images | General Reference | Cataloging | Copyright | Technology/Software | Products and Services | Professional Associations/Organizations | Electronic Discussion Groups | Publishers and Presses ] James Madison University Library Cataloging and Classification Page Includes links to a cataloging and classification sites: MARC, Dewey Decimal, OCLC, etc., as well as automation systems. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/catalog.htm Library of Congress Classification Outline Displays letters and titles of main classes, as well as subclasses within the system. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/ MARC Home Page Provides information on MARC format (Machine Readable Cataloging Record): what it is, why it is necessary, and how to read, understand, and use a record. http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/ Copyright [ Images | General Reference | Cataloging | Copyright | Technology/Software | Products and Services | Professional Associations/Organizations | Electronic Discussion Groups | Publishers and Presses Copyright Law Materials from the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Provides an overview of copyright with links to the U.S. Copyright Act, federal and international materials, and other resources. http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html The Copyright Website Intends to provide practical and relevant copyright information to a wide-ranging audience. Includes such topics as visual, audio, and digital arts, and news items. http://www.benedict.com/ Digital Future Coalition Representing both the owners and users of intellectual property, the DFC is comprised of members from both not-for-profit organizations, educational and cultural institutions, and commercial trade associations. This site provides information on the issue of copyright and the digital age. http://www.dfc.org/ Institute for Learning Technologies Guide to Copyright Besides supplying general information on copyright, this site includes access to the Institute's Copyright Resources for Education Online (CREDO), a database of original material providing important basic information and useful tips on how to protect one's work and how to comply with the existing rules for the use of others' copyrighted works. http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/ U.S. Copyright Office http://www.copyright.gov/ Technology/Software [ Images | General Reference | Cataloging | Copyright | Technology/Software | Products and Services | Professional Associations/Organizations | Electronic Discussion Groups | Publishers and Presses ] Adobe Systems Incorporated http://www.adobe.com/ Apple Computer http://www.apple.com/ Dell Computer http://www.dell.com/ Digital Arts and Sciences Creators of the image management software ImageAXS and the collection management software EmbARK and The Museum System. http://www.dascorp.com/ EndNote: Niles and Associates The homepage of the company that makes EndNote. Download a disabled copy of the latest version. http://www.niles.com Extensis Corporation Producers of software for creative professionals, including the image management system: Portfolio. http://extensis.com Filemaker, Inc. http://www.claris.com/ FileMaker Pro Template Designed and generously offered by Susan Jane Williams at Yale University, these templates are to be used for and/or customized for visual resources collections. Instructions for downloading are included on the page. http://www.library.yale.edu/visual_resources/fmp.htm Gallery Systems Producers of a number of collection management systems. http://www.gallerysystems.com/ Luna Imaging, Inc. Primarily working with archives, museums, and universities, Luna offers digital conversion services as well as produces collection management systems. http://www.luna-imaging.com/ Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/ Re:Discovery Software, Inc. Collection management software used by museums, slide libraries, archives, research libraries, and art, archaeology, natural history and history collections. http://www.rediscov.com/ Products and Services [ Images | General Reference | Cataloging | Copyright | Technology/Software | Products and Services | Professional Associations/Organizations | Electronic Discussion Groups | Publishers and Presses ] Archivart For Framing and Mounting, Archival Preservation and Restoration, Bookbinding and Library Restoration. http://www.archivart.com/ Archives and Museum Informatics Organizes conferences, workshops and seminars, publishes journals and monographs, and consults for archives and museums worldwide. They provide management services for AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium). http://www.archimuse.com/ Gaylord http://www.gaylord.com Gepe The official website of the quintessential visual resources product. http://www.gepe.com Highsmith http://www.highsmith.com Light Impressions http://www.lightimpressionsdirect.com/servlet/OnlineShopping Metal Edge, Inc. http://www.metaledgeinc.com Midwest Publishers Supply http://www.mps-co.com/ Steelcase http://www.steelcase.com University Products, Inc. http://www.universityproducts.com/ Professional Associations/Organizations [ Images | General Reference | Cataloging | Copyright | Technology/Software | Products and Services | Professional Associations/Organizations | Electronic Discussion Groups | Publishers and Presses ] American Association of Museums Representing the entire scope of the museum community, AAM is dedicated to promoting excellence within every type of museum. Services include publications, conferences, seminars, and job opportunities. http://www.aam-us.org/%5C ARLIS/NA Art Libraries Society of North America - promotes the continuing education of its members and the general knowledge of the public concerning all aspects of art librarianship and visual resources curatorship. http://www.arlisna.org/ Association for Art History The Association for Art History welcomes all art historians, museum professionals, critics, and scholars, including graduate students. The Association focuses on the specific interests and concerns of its members. http://www.indiana.edu/~aah/ College Art Association The premier organization of artists, art historians, and art critics dedicated and committed to the practice of art, teaching, and research of the visual arts and humanities. http://www.collegeart.org/ ICOM (The International Council of Museums) The international organization devoted to the development and promotion of museums and the museum profession. http://icom.museum/ Research Libraries Group A not-for-profit membership corporation of cultural, educational, and historical institutions committed to advanced information access for research and learning purposes. http://www.rlg.org/ Visual Resources Association web site The Visual Resources Association is a non-profit organization established to further research and education in the field of visual resources and to promote a spirit of cooperation among the members of the profession. Membership is open to any person or institution interested in the purposes of the Association. Our membership includes slide and photograph curators, film and video librarians, media professionals, photo archivists, slide and microform producers, rights and reproduction officials, photographers, art historians, and others concerned with visual materials. http://www.vraweb.org/ Electronic Discussion Groups [ Images | General Reference | Cataloging | Copyright | Technology/Software | Products and Services | Professional Associations/Organizations | Electronic Discussion Groups | Publishers and Presses ] AmArt-L (American Art) - listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu ARLIS-L (Art Libraries Society) - listserv@ukcc.uky.edu ARTCRIT (Contemporary art, architecture, and urban design) - listserv@uafsysb.uark.edu CAAH (Consortium of Art & Architectural Historians) - listserv@pucc.princeton.edu Mediev-L (Medieval art) - listserv@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu Museum-L (Museums and museology) - listserv@unmvma.unm.edu NAHIA-L (North American Historians of Islamic Art) - listserv@msu.edu Phothst (History of photography) - listserv@asuvm.inre.asu.edu PRINTS-L (History of prints and printmaking) - listserv@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu VRA-L (Visual Resources Association) - listserv@uafsysb.uark.edu To subscribe to most lists leave the subject line blank and simply send the message SUBSCRIBE NAME OF LIST (i.e.VRA-L) YOUR NAME (substituting your own name). Publishers and Presses [ Images | General Reference | Cataloging | Copyright | Technology/Software | Products and Services | Professional Associations/Organizations | Electronic Discussion Groups | Publishers and Presses ] Academic Press http://www.academicpress.com/ CHArt Journal Tables of Contents and Abstracts Provides tables of contents and abstracts for Computers and the History of Art Journal, volumes 1-7. http://www.hart.bbk.ac.uk/chart/chartocs.html Harcourt, Inc. http://www.harcourt.com/hlcollege/ Harry N. Abrams, Inc. http://www.abramsbooks.com/ Paragon Books Specialists of books on Asian Art and Asian Studies. http://www.webart.com/paragonbook/ The Penguin Group http://www.penguin.com/ Prentice Hall http://www.prenhall.com/ Russell R. duPont Specializing in artists' monographs, exhibition catalogues and books on the fine and decorative arts http://www.tiac.net/users/dupbooks/ University Press Catalogs Links to numerous university press catalogs available on the internet. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Others/AAUP/index.html Back to Mother   If you have any additions, suggestions, or contributions contact: Patrick Young patyoung@umich.eduThanks!