Location: Room 306, 3rd floor of the Hardie Building.

Access: Open to faculty and staff when the building is open; open to students (partial privileges when their teachers require) when the Image Librarian is on duty; faculty from schools and colleges in the area may borrow slides, but do not have access to the digital image collection.

Hours: The Image Librarian or an assistant is on duty Monday-Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Collection: 5000+ digital images and 62,000+ slides.

Facilities and Equipment: Two faculty desks each with a computer, printer and Nikon slide scanner and an Epsom flatbed scanner at one. Three large light tables for faculty lecture preparation, a portable light table for home use, fifteen slide projectors, and two audio-viewers. A digital camera and Tungsten copy stand are available for use by appointment.

Research Facilities: An extensive Art and Artist Database with cross-referencing capabilities. A collection of Art History Survey Books.

Mission: The Image Library is dedicated to the acquisition, classification and maintenance of visual images to support the needs of faculty, staff and students.

The Image Librarian provides assistance and training to faculty and staff on:

• The Montserrat Digital Image Database
• Scanning Slides using a Nikon Slide Scanner, including how to save the images correctly for projection (JPEG, TIFF, resolution, pixels, etc.)
• Scanning images from books using the Epsom Flatbed Scanner, including how to save the images correctly for projection (JPEG, TIFF, resolution, pixels, etc.)
• PowerPoint for Mac OS X - including how to create computer driven slideshows, inserting images, text, etc.
• How to burn a CD, DVD or use a travel stick for transporting images and Powerpoint presentations
• Assistance in the Smart Classroom
• Basic Photoshop
• Accessing Image Vendors such as Artstor
• Providing image reference service and database searches on request (*see below)
• The Image Librarian scans slides from the collection upon faculty request, however, at this time, the turnover is 2-3 weeks or more, depending on backlog and work study assistance. Turnover will be greatly improved when the Image Library has a separate server that can be accessed school wide.

LINKS

ARTstor -- Montserrat faculty and affiliates may access ARTstor remotely for 120 days). After that period, they will need to access ARTstor from the College's IP address (or proxy server) in order to automatically renew the 120 day remote access period. Online training sessions are useful. ARTstor has recently updated its website to be more user friendly, it has higher resolution images, and it has started a collection of Images for Academic Publishing.

http://studio.montserrat.edu/library/image_library.htm -- current news, external image resources