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SMITH COLLECTIONS & LICENSED RESOURCES

The Image Collections

"The Image Collections are located in the Imaging Center, a facility on the third floor of the Brown Fine Arts Center that supports activities related to the teaching, learning, and research use of images in the Smith community... Among the services provided are: image collection development for teaching, image production, cataloging, licensing of digital content, training, and database management."

The center manages three collections in support of the pedagogical mission of the college: digital images delivered through the Insight system (see section below) and collections of 280,000 slides and 73,000 photographs, color reproductions and other materials documenting art, architecture, and material culture from a wide geographic and cultural range.

Major Image Databases

ARTstor Connect to the ARTstor database
ARTstor is a library of digital images of works of art and other cultural materials, descriptive information about the works recorded in these images, and tools to work with the images and their documentation. ARTstor currently includes about 500,00 digital images ranging from standard art history survey material to specialized collections documenting the design and architecture collections of New York's Museum of Modern Art, works associated with the Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang, China, the "Illustrated Bartsch" (a collection of European Old Master prints), and the Carnegie Arts of the United States project.

INSIGHT Connect to the INSIGHT web site
The Luna Imaging INSIGHT database provides access to over 150,000 images including works of art in all media including digital reproductions of numerous objects from the Mortimer Rare Book Room and the Smith College Museum of Art, 6,500 images of historical maps from the David Rumsey Collection, and more than 8,000 images used for teaching and study from the Department of Art Image Collections. Web access in INSIGHT is available only on the Smith campus. The more powerful JVA software is available on request for members of the Smith community. Please contact Jacy Birdsong jbirdson@email.smith.edu, Educational Technology Services for information on this option.

Other Subscription Databases

Academic Search Premier: Image Collection
The database includes of thousands of current and historic photographs and other images of people, places, and natural science topics--many from the Canadian news press. Select "Images" from the green menu bar.

AP Images
Covers 1984s to the present. Current year's photos from the Associated Press photo library and over a million photos dating from the 1840s to the present with text captions.

Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance.
Information on 20,000 Renaissance works of art documenting 10,000 antique monuments illustrated by 30,000 photographs. Links Renaissance sources with the antique works they document, their locations, dates, names, and modern bibliographical citations.

Dictionary of National Biography
10,000 portraits in all media are included in this standard reference source for British biography. Images can be searched by sitter, artist, date, location of the portrait, and copyright holder. Biographies also includes lists of other portraits of the subject.

Groveart.com
This comprehensive encyclopedia of art provides links to 150,000 digital images from Bridgeman Art Library, Art Resource, from museum and other art websites.

Index of Christian Art
Documents 60,000 works of art in all media produced from apostolic times through the 15th century with Christian themes or for ecclesiastical settings. Entries give bibliographies, scholarly commentaries, and images (over 100,000 are included in the database).

Smith Online Collections

Smith College Archives. Digitized Collections and Image Gallery.
The most image-rich collections are The Senda Berenson Papers which includes approximately 60 photographs of Berenson (1868-1954) and the Postcard Collection, "an artificial collection of over 800 unique postcards [published from 1900 to 1995] depicting Smith College campus buildings, interiors, and events as well as views of the greater Northampton area."

Smith College Museum of Art. Permanent Collection.
Highlights of the collection including paintings, sculpture, and works on paper from the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The Five College Museum/Historic Deerfield Database includes thumbnail images of many other works in the SCMA and other Five College collections.

Sophia Smith Collection.
Images are used throughout the website including the Collections page, online exhibits and lesson plans.

IMAGES ON THE INTERNET: SEARCHING & SOURCES

Thomas, Ruth S. Finding Images on the Web. Boston University Libraries. Created September 1998, last updated December 2006.

Image Search Engines

A Review of Image Search Engines. Technical Advisory Service for Images. May 2006.
Evaluation of major search engines with image search options as well as specilized image search engines. Includes links to many image sites.

AltaVista Image Search
Google Image Search
OAIster
Academically oriented digital resources harvested from educational and research institutions, national libraries, and other organizations. Select "limit by resource type: image"
Picsearch
Web Places Clip Art Searcher
Yahoo Image Search (select Images tab)

Public Collections

Collect Britain. British Library.
More than 90,000 digital images of maps, prints and drawings, photographs, and other documents, and rare early sound recordings from around the globe.

American Memory. Library of Congress.
A "gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections." Use the Collection Finder to access the collection by broad subject, date, place, or material format.

Digital Collections. University of California, Berkeley. Sunsite.
Covers a broad range of disciplines and document types from aerial photography to medieval manuscripts.

Gallica. Bibliotheque National de France.
Over 80,000 digital images of photographs, prints, drawings, maps, manuscripts, books, and other materials documenting the history and culture of France.

NYPL Digital. New York Public Library.
"NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more." (now includes the Picture Collection Online).

Picture Australia. National Library of Australia.
Search engine for Australia-related images of "people, places and events in the collections of libraries, museums, galleries, archives, universities and other cultural agencies, in Australia and abroad." Includes works of art in all media, contemporary news and historical photos, historical objects and printed materials.

Digital Reproductions of Works of Art

Art History Resources on the Web
Art Images for College Teaching

Photo Agencies & Other Commercial Sites

Corbis
Getty Images
New York Times. Photos & Graphics
Time-Life Pictures

Flickr.com
Free photo sharing and management website that provides access to thousands of photos on all topics submitted by amateur and professional photographers.

PRINT SOURCES: IMAGE SEARCHING IN BOOKS & PERIODICALS

Library Collections

Five College Library Catalog
is useful to find illustrations in books and catalogs.

Location of Art Library Materials
is a browsing guide to the subject arrangement of the books, catalogs, and other resources in Hillyer Art Library.

Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective
provide access to reproductions of works of art published in both the editorial and advertising sections of over 400 art magazines, journals, and other periodicals from 1929 to the present.

Illustration Indexes

Art Reference N7525 .I558 and Neilson Reference N7525 .I558
Illustration Index. 2nd ed., 1950-June 1963; 3rd ed., July 1963-1971; 4th
ed., 1972-1976; 5th ed., 1977-1981; 6th ed., 1982-1986; 7th ed., 1987-1991; 8th ed., 1992-1996. New York : Scarecrow Press, 1957-1998.

Indexes to Reproductions of Works of Art

A.L.A. Portrait Index. Art Ref N7620 .A2 1906
Atkinson, W. Patrick. Theatrical Design in the Twentieth Century. Josten Ref PN2091.S8 T47
Clapp, Jane. Art in Life [magazine]. Art Ref N7525 .C55
Clapp, Jane. Sculpture Index. Art Ref NB36 .C55
Havlice, Patricia Pate. Art in Time [magazine]. Art Ref N7225 .H38
Havlice, Patricia Pate. World Painting Index. Art Ref ND45 .H38
Index to Art Reproductions in Books. Art Ref N7525 .H48 1974
Korwin, Yala H. Index to Two-dimensional Art Works. Art Ref N7525 .K67
Monro, Isabel S. Index to Reproductions of American Paintings. Art Ref ND205 .M57
Monro, Isabel S. Index to Reproductions of European Paintings. Art Ref ND45 .M6
Parry, Pamela Jeffcott, comp. Contemporary Art and Artists. Art Ref N6490.P3234
Parry, Pamela Jeffcott, comp. Photography Index. Art Ref TR199 .P37
Parry, Pamela Jeffcott, comp. Print Index. Art Reference NE90 .P17 1983
Smith, Lyn Wall. Index to Reproductions of American Paintings. Art Ref ND205 .S575
Thomison, Dennis. The Black Artist in America. Art Ref N6538.N5 T46 1991

USING IMAGES: RIGHTS & CITATION FORMATS

General Guidelines & Standards

Harper, Georgia. Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials. Crash Course in Copyright. University of Texas. Last updated March 30, 2005.
Note Rules of Thumb for Digitizing and Using Images for Educational Purposes.

Image Collection Guidelines: The Acquisition and Use of Images in Non-Profit Educational Visual Resources Collections. Visual Resources Association. Last updated March 8, 2001.

Smith Guidelines

Using Images: Guidelines. Smith College, Imaging Center

Copyrights and Usage. Smith College Museum of Art.
Contact the museum (artmuseum@email.smith.edu) for permission to publish (print or electronic) images of works of art in the SCMA collections.

Publication of Audio-Visual Materials. Smith College, Sophia Smith Collection.

Examples of Other Guidelines

Library of Congress Legal Notices and Privacy and Publicity Rights. American Memory. Library of Congress. Last updated December 1, 2004.
Corbis Content License Agreement
Terms and Conditions. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Citation Formats for Images

Style Manuals & Citation Guides. Smith College Libraries.
Includes a section on citing images of works of art and photographic illustrations.

HELP FROM A LIBRARIAN

Barbara Polowy, Art Librarian, 121 Hillyer Hall

For reference assistance, including desk hours and contacts, see the Need Help? page, or contact the art librarian directly at 413-585-2941. Hillyer Art Library is located in the Brown Fine Arts Center.

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