Selection Responsibility
Selection responsibility lies with the Materials & Images Librarian. Faculty and students may request slides for retrieval from LIBRA or request digital images be made for lecture, display, or review through the Materials & Images Librarian.
Selection Criteria
The table below represents the level of slide collecting circa 2000, at which point digital formats became common and interest in slide acquisitions dropped. Collecting covers subjects ranging from prehistoric art and architecture through art and architecture of the present day. Fine arts images were collected to support the University's teaching and research needs.
Subject |
Level |
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Maps |
2 |
Landscape Architecture |
3 |
City Planning |
3 |
Architecture |
3 |
Sculpture |
3 |
Painting |
3 |
Drawing |
3 |
Minor/Other Arts |
3 |
Furniture |
3 |
Manuscripts |
3 |
Photography |
3 |
Prints |
3 |
Contemporary Arts |
3 |
Texts |
2 |
Arts of the United States |
2 |
Ethnography |
2 |
When slides are lost or damaged, faculty and students may request a replacement or digital facsimile.
The Materials & Images Librarian may choose to deaccession slides. Such instances include:
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Damaged slides
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Deteriorated slides
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Slides depicting material outside the realm of fine arts as defined by the Fisher Fine Arts Library
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Slides made from books or other print materials where the original can be scanned to produce a higher quality image
Technical Applications
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Slides: Slides were photographed on Kodak Ektachrome 64T film using a Nikon F3 camera with a 1-2.8 Nikon lens.
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Digital Images: Transparent slides have been scanned using a Nikon Cool Scan IV slide scanner, Plustek OpticFilm 7600i scanner, and Epson Perfection V-750 Pro scanner at 2400dpi. Non-transparent printed materials have been scanned on Epson GT-15000 and Plustek OpticFilm 7600i scanners at 600dpi. The resulting scans are saved as Tiff files and kept for archival purposes.
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Catalog: JSTOR serves as the catalog, discovery interface, and image viewer for the Fine Arts Image Collection.