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VISUAL RESOURCES COLLECTION (VRC)
Department of Art and Art History
318 UCB, Fleming Building, Room 82, Boulder, CO 80309-0318

VRC Blog: http://aahvrc.blogspot.com/

Staff
Visual Resources Curator: Elaine Paul (303-492-6136)
Digital Imaging and Technology Coordinator: Lia Pileggi (303-735-1640)
Please contact Lia Pileggi with inquiries regarding AV/digital equipment and VRC-supported classrooms.

VRC Graduate Assistant: Katie Grasser
VRC/Visiting Artist Graduate Assistant: Emza Seib
Visual Resources Assistants: Eric Gehringer, Linda Lopez, Lauren Mayer, Lillian Ruiz, and Cara Wagner

Hours
Fall and spring semesters: Monday-Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Maymester and summer sessions: Hours vary--please e-mail for more information.

The VRC is closed during campus holidays and intersessions. Please see the UCB Academic Calendar. Circumstances may occasionally cause the VRC to close during its regular hours--please contact the departmental office for assistance at 303-492-3580.

VRC News
See our news page for announcements regarding current events in the Visual Resources Collection. This includes information about our new digital image collection, our temporary location in the Fleming Building, our new Digital Imaging and Technology Coordinator, and ARTstor (a digital image library available to all at the University of Colorado).

Overview of VRC Sevices
Our primary mission is to provide and facilitate access to images for teaching and research in the Department of Art and Art History. Therefore our image collection development supports the departmental curriculum. However, we freely share our digital images with all faculty, staff, and currently enrolled students across the CU and the Auraria institutions. We also lend our 35mm slides to faculty on the Boulder campus. All equipment is for use within the Department of Art and Art History only. Please see our Policies and Procedures document for more information [PDF].

The Visual Resources Collection (VRC) has recently launched a new and growing digital image collection depicting historical and contemporary art, architecture, and other visual and material culture from around the world. The VRC is a founding member of the Digital Image Collaborative, a consortium among academic departments and colleges at the University of Colorado and the institutions of the Auraria Higher Education Center, which provides access to images for education and research to all current faculty, students, and staff at these institutions. These collections in turn are part of the University of Colorado Digital Library (CU-DL), a CU system-wide collaboration with the Auraria Higher Education Center, which includes digital collections from many departments, colleges, libraries, as well as other institutions from around the world. IMPORTANT: Faculty members from the CU-Boulder campus who wish to export and use images from the CU-DL will want to use a Java client rather than the browser version currently available on the CU-DL web site. More information.

The VRC still maintains and circulates its slide collection comprising nearly 400,000 35mm slides. The VRC archives and lends videos of lectures and interviews from the department's Visiting Artist Program. We are currently digitizing this archive, with many videos now available in DVD format.

The VRC provides analog and digital equipment for instruction within the Department of Art and Art History, as well as technical support for designated media-equipped classrooms in the Fleming Building.

VRC services include public scanning stations for Art and Art History faculty and staff, as well as students enrolled in Art and Art History classes. We provide training in scanning and digital imaging. We offer technnical support and training for our local image database and the ARTstor image database, along with certain types of presentation software.

For more information, see our VRC services page.

Other Image Resources
To help our faculty and students locate digital content outside the Art and Art History Digital Image Collection, we have created a general image resources page with selected information about finding quality images and multimedia content online. Sections include the CU-DL, ARTstor; Directories, Guides, and Search Engines; Selected Digital Image Collections and Related Content; Commerical Image Providers; and Search Strategies.

Copyright
Our copyright page contains important information and links about copyright and fair use for educational purposes.

Jobs & Careers
Are you interested in working in the VRC? See our Jobs & Careers page for information about graduate assistant and work-study positions. This page also contains information about careers in visual resources environments, art librarianship, and digital librarianship.

Other CU Resources
Our Other CU Resources page contains information about the Libraries, ITS, ITS Media Services, and ITS Classrooms.