Teaching with Slides: The History of the Visual Resources Collection at Yale
Additional Resources
View Visual Resources Collection online:
The original slides and mounted photographs are available to view in Arts Library Special Collections.
Works Cited:
Irvine, Betty Jo. "Slide Collections in Art Libraries." College & Research Libraries, 30.5 (1969): 443-445. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl_30_05_443.
Vestermark, Jesse. 2011. “History of the Rise and Progress of the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University.” Art Libraries Journal 36 (2). Cambridge University Press: 5–11. doi:10.1017/S0307472200016850.
Visual Resources Collection historical files (Art 26): https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12237474
Images of Yale individuals (RU 684). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/4461
Many of the images and materials in the exhibition are from Helen Chillman's personal collection.
Photographs of slides and slide carousels on "Collections" page by Andrea Sanchez Moctezuma.
About the authors:
Sarah Coe graduated from Yale in 1983 with a major in fine art, and began working in the VRC in 2001, when the move to digital images was in its infancy.
Tess Colwell is the arts librarian for research services at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library where she supports students and faculty in art and architecture research. In 2019, she and Lindsay King worked with Yale's Digital Humanities Lab to bring the VRC to PixPlot.
Maria Zapata started working at the VRC in 2003 when it was located at Street Hall. She assisted Helen Chillman with managing the daily slide library operations and faculty requests. She has worked at Yale for 18 years, and continues her work with the VRC and other special collections materials as a technical services assistant at the Arts Library.