Welcome to the Bard Visual Resource Center

(a.k.a., Slide Library)

Hours:
The Bard Visual Resource Center / Slide Library, located in

Room 153 Fisher Studio Arts Building, is open during the following hours:

During the academic year:

Monday-Friday: 9am to 5pm

During summer session and academic breaks:

Monday-Friday: 10am to 5pm

(Additional hours available by appointment.)

Student Use
The Bard Visual Resource Center/Slide Library is available for student use.  Collection staff will give the student a brief orientation on their first visit.  Students may come in at any time during the semester to browse the collection.

Bard students may use the slide room at any point during the semester to browse the holdings, but may not remove slides from the Slide Library until 24 hours prior to their class presentations. Slides may be put on hold a week before the presentation.

Circulation
The Bard Visual Resource collection is restricted to use by faculty and students of Bard College and its affiliates. Slides should not circulate off campus, and cannot be circulated between users or be duplicated in any media while checked out.

Borrowers are not restricted in the number of slides that can be taken. All borrowers are required to check out slides. Faculty are encouraged to borrow slides for 24 hours. Extended circulation periods can sometimes be arranged if discussed in advance with the Curator. All slides must be returned to the collection by the end of each semester.

Copyright
(The following text is modified from the copyright policy of the Slide Library at ASU)

All images made by or for, or purchased by, the Slide Library become part of the collection. Slides, photographs or digital images belonging to the Slide Library will be used for educational purposes only. These educational uses include projecting slides or digital images in the traditional face-to-face classroom, creating class review websites that are accessible only to enrolled class members, and as thumbnail images in the collection database. The Slide Library does not reproduce, or allow to be reproduced, images in any print media, nor use them in any electronic or broadcast media except for the express educational uses described above. The Slide Library does not collect any fees or receive remuneration of any kind for use of collection images. The Slide Library does not authorize any person or group to duplicate collection images. Source information is collected and managed, and the copyright holder is acknowledged for all collection images.

Acquiring images
Where a commercially-produced image (slides or digital images) of acceptable quality is available for a reasonable price, the Slide Library will acquire images and appropriate licensing from the museum/collection or commercial vendor. The Slide Library will pursue memberships and subscriptions to image databases as a source for digital images where possible. Only one copy, per format, of an image from a copyrighted work will be made.

Slides and digital images will be produced in accordance with the "fair use" guidelines of the 1976 copyright law as described Copyright Crash Course developed by the Office of General Counsel, University of Texas at Austin and according to the Image Collection Guidelines: The Acquisition and Use of Images in Non-Profit Educational Slide Libraries, developed by the Visual Resources Association.

Duplication of Collection Images
No duplication of the collection holdings will be permitted. The collection holdings may not be reproduced in any print media, used in any electronic or broadcast medium of a commercial nature without the written permission of the copyright holder.