Visual Resources Center | Graduate Studies
The Fine Arts Slide Library contains a collection of over 350,000 slides, covering all areas and periods of art, whose primary function is to meet the teaching needs of the School of Fine Art. We have over 60,000 images in the Visual Resources Collection. All AI's are welcome to use these collections, and to check slides out for 24-hour periods.
We provide carousel slide projectors, for use within the Fine Arts building, and slide trays that will fit all university slide equipment. We also provide digital projectors and laptops for use by Art History faculty and AIs. If you want to show slides or digital images on a regular basis in the Fine Arts Building, talk to Fenella Flinn in the office about scheduling time in one of the seminar rooms or small classrooms. We will help you learn to operate the equipment, and show you how to avoid some common problems. If you have any questions about projectors or installed classroom technology, or need new bulbs or repairs, give us a call at 855-6717.
We also make slides, scan slides, and create original digital images. If you find the collection weak in an area you wish to teach, find us some good reproductions and give us a couple of weeks. Our collection is a large and complicated one, so be sure to ask us for help. We may have the material you need in some other category.
We ask that you not share slides - that is, we do not want one person to check out the slides and pass them on to another AI. If you are teaching similar sections, we can hold the slides for the next person, but we need to know who actually has the material at any given time in case we need to call to get something back for one of the Art History classes.
We require that all materials be checked out by faculty or AI's, not by students, but we can arrange it so that the students can select their own examples. Talk to us if you want to do this in your class.
Selecting slides for teaching takes longer than you might think. Give yourself at least an hour or two, especially if you have never used the collections before. You can come in any time we are open to select, edit, and arrange materials, and can put materials you are interested in on reserve for as long as you like. This gives you ample time to prepare and still gives others access to the slides if the need arises.
As an additional service to the School, the Slide Library can help you use our computer and printer to produce slide labels for your resumes and applications. We provide this service free of charge, but do require that you pay for the labels themselves. Later in the year, the Graduate Secretary will take names of those who wish to order labels. The cost will be about $7.00/1,000 labels, and you should assume you would need two labels per slide unless you have very simple title and media descriptions. We save this information on the computer for two years, in case you need more labels in the future.
We are here to help you teach your classes. Feel free to ask us for help and advice. We are open Monday through Friday, 8:00 -5:00 p.m.
Slide Library Home Page: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/dido/sl/slides.html
Visual Resources Collection: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/dido/
