Ann Silver, Slide and Image Curator
Hours: 8:30 to 12:00, Monday through Friday
Phone: 238-5734
silver@centre.edu
CONTENTS
The Slide Library is a faculty resource with 5,000 digital
images and over 40,000 35 mm. slides, primarily of western art and architecture
from pre-history to the present. Organized in 1984 from a handful of unlabeled
slides stored in shoe boxes, the collection has developed into an essential
teaching tool for a wide variety of courses.
The collection covers the following media:
painting, architecture, sculpture, graphic arts, ceramics and glass.
Other areas of special interest are Greek and Roman mythology and culture.
Growth of the collection is shaped by faculty input and the discretion
of the slide curator. The mission of the slide library is to provide
the best available images for teaching.
STAFF
The Slide Library is staffed by one half-time curator and
student assistants when classes are in session.
DIGITAL IMAGE LIBRARY
Digital images are offered through the Madison Digital Image Database, an on-line image library with a classroom presentation tool and student review module. Read more about it here
CIRCULATION
Slides are circulated to Centre faculty for classroom use.
The recommended check-out period is one week. This ensures that all patrons
of the slide room have access to the materials they need for teaching.
For your convenience, slides can be delivered to your office or picked up for
return. Please call ahead or e-mail
for this service.
Please return slides promptly out of respect for your
colleagues. We may request an earlier return date if slides are needed by another
faculty member. Materials returned after regular office hours may
be left in my office mail box in the JVAC.
A brief orientation on how to use the collection is highly
recommended to new users. Otherwise, finding the cave paintings of Lascaux,
the etchings of Rembrandt or Persian ceramics may prove to be an insurmountable
challenge.
EQUIPMENT
Faculty may also check out laser pointers, slide carousels
and magnifying viewers (loupes) from the image library. The Center for
Teaching and Learning provides help with equipment in the classrooms. Their
number is x5288. Their web site is here
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT
Images are acquired through purchases from slides
vendors, through copy photography or by on-site photography (by the slide
curator or faculty members). Catalogs from many image vendors are
available in the slide room or on the web (see list below). Faculty
who have the opportunity to purchase slides during travel are encouraged
to do so. This is a wonderful way to enrich the collection and funds
are available for reimbursement. Please check with the slide curator
about this possibility.
REQUESTING NEW IMAGES
Copy photography and digital image requests must be made
three weeks in advance of anticipated use. Please check with the slide
librarian to avoid duplication of materials when having new slides made.
All work will become part of the College collection.
CONFERENCES AND PUBLICATIONS
Slides for professional conferences can be
made in the slide room. Material outside the scope of the general
collection will be paid for out of faculty development money and will become
the property of the faculty member. As with all photography requests,
please allow a minimum of threee weeks for materials to be photographed
and developed. Copy photography for publications can also be provided.
Responsibility for obtaining copyright clearance to publish the image belongs
to the faculty member.
TEACHING A NEW COURSE
If you are creating a new course which will require
large numbers of new slides (more than one roll of film, 36 frames),
please check with the slide curator the prior term. This allows time
to review the existing collection and locate sources for new material.
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Student use of the collection is limited. Faculty must
make prior arrangements with the slide curator. Any slides checked
out are done so under the faculty member's name. Students may not remove
slides from the library. Faculty may pick up carousels before student
presentations or arrange to have them delivered. PLEASE do not send students
to the slide room without calling ahead.