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SERVICES - GENERAL INFORMATION

The History of Art Department’s Visual Resources Collection is a unique campus resource currently maintaining 140,000 35mm slides, and approximately 18,000 digital images on Photo-CD. Areas covered include Western architecture, sculpture, and painting from prehistoric times to the present and Asian art concentrating on East Asian painting and archaeology. Special collections housed in the Slide Library include:
The Dance and Costume Collection - slides relating to the history of dance and costume and the Theatre Collection - a visual survey of theater structures and iconography ranging from Greek and Roman Classical Theatre to contemporary American Theatre. Also included is a collection of architecture, furnishings, and interiors relating to theatrical history.

Materials circulate to UCR faculty members and graduate or seminar students only. Others may utilize the collection with permission from the instructors and the curator.

USE OF THE SLIDE COLLECTION

Faculty teaching seminars or upper division courses and expecting to have students present reports using collection slides should notify the curator in advance each quarter and provide a list of students who may be checking out materials. A time will be arranged for a group orientation.

See the VRC’s PowerPoint presentation FINDING AND USING SLIDES before your first use of the collection.

SLIDE CIRCULATION

Patrons are assigned a colored chip during orientation. To pull a slide, the borrower places a chip behind its front card in the exact location where the slide was removed from the drawer. All 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 collection is closed, make arrangements with the curator for their return.* Slides should be placed in the return drawer marked with the user’s initials or department name. VRC staff will re-file all slides.

Borrowers will be charged a minimum of $10.00 for each lost or damaged slide and $.50 for damaged mounts.

*The return of materials used after 5:00 p.m. becomes the responsibility of the faculty member. Slides should not be left in a classroom unless specific arrangements are made to do so.