It is your responsibility to comply with United States Copyright Law, when using copies of other individual’s creative works.

At the VRC, Copyright Law is most likely to pertain to educational use of copies of concrete expressions of a creative work, such as

• Musical works, scores, lyrics, and sound recordings
• Pictorial/graphic works, art, sculpture, photographs
• Audiovisual works, motion pictures, videos, video games

1. The 35mm slide collection contains approximately 45,000 images of art from all cultural periods.

• Fogg Slides:  Filed by the medium, and then by location.  (Exception:  Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Art of the early Americas, and African Art are filed by location, and then medium.)  Please see the VR Curator for assistance with this idiosyncratic collection.
• American Art Slides by Sandak:  Filed by the vendor’s category of art, such as “painting” or “decorative art”.
• Artist Slides:  Filed by the last name of the known artist.  However, architects are filed in the Fogg collection under the location of their architectural works.
• Fiber Arts Slides:  Filed within the Fogg Collection (ID #CF600)
• Donated slides - Art of MesoAmerica:  Stored in 4 carousels.  Many are “pink”.  Not catalogued.
• Donated slides - Misc. Art:  Stored in Copy Stand Room.  Not catalogued.

2. Digital images.

• ARTstor, a licensed database of digital art images contains approximately 450,000 images.  (Go to link on Alkek Library Databases Page)
• The departmental collection contains approximately 9,000 images from all ages, but consists primarily of examples of modern art.  The searchable catalog is available in Filemaker 5.5; please contact the VR Curator for assistance with this.
   
• DVD-Roms containing still images and/or moving images include:
  
  1. “Photography Now: One Hundred Portfolios”, produced at Wright State University. (4 discs, including “The New street Photography” ©1994, “Photography in the 1990’s: Fifty Portfolios” ©1995, “The Celebrative Spirit: 1937-1943” ©1997)
  2. “Women in Documentary Photography 2000”, produced at Wright State University (©2000)
  3. Public Art Network competition presented by Americans for the Arts
     
     • “2004 Year in Review”; 140 images of 46 of the year's most innovative and exciting public art projects.
     • “2005 Year in Review”; 123 total images of 37 innovative public art projects.  “Artist Donald Lipski and urban design and planning consultant Sherry Kafka Wagner reviewed and presented their selections of the most exciting, compelling, and innovative public art projects completed between April 2004 and April 2005 in the United States and beyond.”
     • “2006 Year in Review”; “Artist Mary Miss and Robert Rindler, artist and President of the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, reviewed 180 public art projects submitted for consideration to select highlights of innovative and exciting public art projects completed throughout the United States over the last year.”

3. The CD-Rom Collection contains various titles pertaining to the History of Art or Music; most require Mac OS 9 “Classic” in order to run.

4. The Film Collection contains materials in DVD or VHS tape format, pertaining to the History of Cinema or to documentation of Artists and the History of Art.  Please see VR Staff for assistance locating a particular title.

5. The BBC Sounds CD collection contains short clips of a variety of sounds. An index to the sounds is available. Located in JCM 3102 a bookshelves; see VR Receptionist for assistance. For Holly Shields' class, please request AIFF recordings; see VR curator.)

6. The ITN-Reuters Video Clip DVD collection contains short video clips of a variety of filmed subjects. An index to clip content is available. Please contact the VR Curator for assistance with these.

7. Various kinds of A/V equipment are available for loan to Faculty to assist them with classroom and conference presentations, including slide projectors, LCD projectors, DVD and VHS tape players, and various computer cables. Please ask the Receptionist for assistance with these. A laptop and digital camera, available to Faculty only, must be checked out directly from the VR Curator.