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The Digitization Project The Visual Media Collection is currently engaged in scanning slides from the collection. The aim of this project is twofold: to support selected courses which will be taught repeatedly, and to digitize those areas of the collection which are used most often for research. The project is intended to complement the collections already available on ARTstor. Faculty are urged to make requests for digitizing as soon as they know what they will need for a given course. Turnaround time varies, but for a batch of 40-50 slides we require at least 2 weeks for digitizing and archiving. Click here for an explanation of our request procedures. Two Nikon Coolscan 5000 slide scanners with batch feeders A Nikon D70 digital camera and copystand for images from printed media Two Macintosh PowerPro computers with flat screen LCD color calibrated monitors A Macintosh G5 Digital images are stored archivally on a remote server which is backed up nightly. With a team of one Digitization Coordinator, one cataloguer and two or three student workers, we are able to produce around 250 images per week. Newly digitized images are generally made available for use in MDID within the week. |
| > ARTstor at Northwestern | The Art History Visual Media Collection at Northwestern University consists of over 290,000 color and black & white slides chronicling the history of the art and architecture of Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. The collection is particularly strong in Manuscripts, Chinese Painting, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, Surrealism, African, and Precolumbian Art. Additionally, the collection supports a constantly growing archive of digital images. |
