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CONTACTS & POLICIES
Location: Hours: Phone: (951) 827-4628 Staff Contact Information The UC Riverside VRC has three part-time career staff member positions and 2-4 student workers Madelyn Millen, Curator Jennifer Patton, Assistant Curator Teodora Bozhilova, Image Production Technician
INFORMATION for VISITING LECTURERSCollections The History of Art Department's Visual Resources Collection is a unique campus resource currently maintaining 35mm slides, and digital images on Photo-CD. The VRC circulates this collection of slides to faculty throughout the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHA&SS). Currently the digital images are available only via course websites for specific History of Art classes. The VRC collection contains approximately 140,000 35mm slides. Areas covered include architecture, sculpture, and painting from prehistoric times to the present; photography; and Asian art concentrating on East Asian painting and archaeology. These materials are used primarily for instructional purposes in undergraduate and graduate courses. Special collections housed in the Slide Library include: Humanities Duplicates Collection: Slide Circulation Materials circulate to faculty members, visiting lecturers and graduate or seminar students only. Others may utilize the Collection with permission from instructors and the Curator. To pull a slide, the borrower places a chip in the exact position where the slide was removed from the drawer, behind its front card. Checked out slides must remain in the VRC; they will be held on reserve in a designated location and can be picked up just prior to classroom use. Slides must be returned to the Visual Resources Collection immediately after class. If the class is scheduled to end after the Library is closed, the slides must be returned by 9 a.m. the following day. The return of equipment and materials used after 5:00 p.m. becomes the responsibility of the faculty member. Slides should not, under any circumstances, be left in a classroom. Slide Carousels, Laser Pointers, Light Tables The VRC lends 80-slot Kodak Universal slide carousels to faculty, lecturers, and teaching assistants for the duration of the quarter. Laser pointers may also be checked out for class time only. Light tables are available in the VRC for viewing slides. An area on one of the shelves in the VRC is assigned to each patron and is used to store carousels and slides. Slide Production The VRC makes slides primarily for History of Art faculty's classroom use. Slide production may be requested when slides are not available in our collection that you feel may be of benefit. The number of slides that the VRC staff can produce is limited. The turnaround time for slides is three weeks. We ask that funds to cover the cost of slide production are acquired through grants from UCR's Instructional Development Department. Application forms, instructions and deadlines (very early in the quarter) for these mini grants are available at http://www.oid.ucr.edu/ The VRC curators can advise you regarding cost, etc. Lost or Damaged Slides Borrowers will be charged a minimum of $10.00 for each lost or damaged slide and $.50 for damaged mounts. Course Websites/Study Carousels New websites cannot be developed by VRC staff, however visiting lecturers may use existing websites for their courses. Those interested in developing a new course website must contact UCR's Academic Computing Dept. at 827-3555. Computing will provide some instruction in developing a website using Blackboard, the course management application currently supported by UCR's Academic Computing Dept. Please note that Computing is limited in the amount of assistance they can offer. Study carousels are an alternative form of course instructional support. VRC slides can be pulled for use in a study carousel. Arrangements can be made for students to view the study carousels in the Media Library in the Humanities Building . This unit has extended hours during the week and on weekends. Duplicating Slides U.S. Copyright Law prohibits duplication of most VRC slides. The VRC does not provide duplication services. --- Back to Top --- CIRCULATION POLICY for VRC PATRONSCollections The History of Art Department's Visual Resources Collection is a unique campus resource currently maintaining 35mm slides, and digital images on Photo-CD. The VRC circulates this collection of slides to faculty throughout the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHA&SS). Currently the digital images are available only via course websites for specific History of Art classes. Special collections housed in the Slide Library include: Humanities Duplicates Collection Slide Circulation To pull a slide, the borrower places a chip in the exact position where the slide was removed from the drawer, behind its front card. Checked out slides must remain in the VRC; they will be held on reserve in a designated location and can be picked up just prior to classroom use. Slides must be returned to the Visual Resources Collection immediately after class. If the class is scheduled to end after the Library is closed, the slides must be returned by 9 a.m. the following day. The return of equipment and materials used after 5:00 p.m. becomes the responsibility of the faculty member. Slides should not, under any circumstances, be left in a classroom. Slide Production The VRC makes slides primarily for History of Art faculty's classroom use. Slide production may be requested when slides are not available in our collection that you feel may be of benefit. The number of slides that the VRC staff can produce is limited. The turnaround time for slides is three weeks. We ask that funds to cover the cost of slide production are acquired through grants from UCR's Instructional Development Department. Application forms, instructions and deadlines (very early in the quarter) for these mini grants are available at http://www.oid.ucr.edu/ The VRC curators can advise you regarding cost, etc. Lost or Damaged Slides Borrowers will be charged a minimum of $10.00 for each lost or damaged slide and $.50 for damaged mounts. Duplicating Slides U.S. Copyright Law prohibits duplication of most VRC slides. The VRC does not provide duplication services. --- Back to Top --- |
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