Sarah Lawrence College Visual Resources Library
Heimbold Center, Room 208
Telephone:  914-395-2300
Email: bhook@slc.edu

Curators:
Bianca Hook: Curator, Architecture, Social History, Decorative Arts, Photography, 20th cen./Contemporary
email: bhook@slc.edu

Steph Shapoff: Curator: Ancient Architecture & Minor Arts, Medieval Arts. email: sshapoff@slc.edu

SLC Slide Collection
The Visual Resources/Slide Library 35mm slide collection encompasses every major area of Western art and architecture, as well as significant holdings in ancient Asian, Greek, Roman and Islamic architecture and minor arts. The Dale Harris Collection (DHC) includes French, German, and British social and political history, dance history, and decorative arts.

ARTstor Online Digital Library
Artstor is a growing digital image library and initiative of the Mellon Foundation available to SLC students and faculty. ARTstor offers approximately 300,000 images drawn from collections which include The Illustrated Bartsch, MoMA Architecture and Design collection, the Huntington Archive of Asian Art, the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, as well as monuments of world art, American art, architecture and visual culture from Colonial to the 20th century. To access this library database go to the Esther Raushenbush Library Home Page, click on the Research Tools link, followed by the Databases & Articles link. Databases are organized alphabetically under Databases by Name. To download an image you must enter a valid SLC log in user name. Questions regarding accessing Artstor may be answered by the Esther Raushenbush library reference staff.

SLC Slide Circulation Policy
This facility is open to all students and faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. If you are a first time user, please schedule an appointment with one of the curatorial staff for orientation. Users must present a valid Sarah Lawrence ID card to browse and sign out slides in the collection. We encourage both faculty and students to return borrowed material immediately after use. Staff are happy provide an orientation of the facility to faculty/students, but staff do not pull slide material for faculty/students. Slides may only be used for SLC classes and lectures. Slides may not be used to generate income or profit, or used in any performative or installation aspect, and are not allowed to be duplicated or digitized. Slides may be put on hold for in the Slide Library for a maximum of 7 days.

• Faculty maximum loan and hold period: 7 days
• Student maximum loan period: 24 hours
• Student maximum hold period: 3 days

Overdue & Replacement Fines
All circulating slides are subject to overdue fines and replacement costs for loss or damage. All circulating slides are subject to recall.
Overdue Fines: Constitutes 1-12 days past stated return date. After 12 days the slides are considered lost and the borrower is charged a replacement fee per individual slide. Borrowing privileges at both the Slide Library and the Esther Raushenbush Library are suspended until all fees are paid in full.

• Overdue Fines: .25 cents per day, per slide
• This fine is capped at $60.00 (inclusive for all slides overdue)
• Overdue fines are non-refundable.

Lost/Damaged Slide Replacement Fines
Slides that are 12 days or more beyond stated return date are considered lost. Replacement fines are also applicable to damaged slides, where the film condition is no longer useable.

• Non DHC slides: $10.00 per slide
• DHC slides: $15.00 per slide

Copystand 35 mm Film Slide Creation
We will create slides that are not in our collection for SLC faculty and students educational use and solely at the discretion of the curatorial staff. There are no charges for this service. All slides created by the library are the property of the library and will be mounted in archival mounts, cataloged, and filed. The library does not duplicate slides or create slides for personal use.

• Processing Time:
  • 70 images and below: 14 Business days (Business days do not include Saturday & Sunday)
  • 71 images and above: Additional 7 business days per roll of film (35 images constitutes 1 roll of film)

On occasion and solely at the discretion of the staff the Slide Library can create a duplicate slide for a faculty member and only during original copystand production. The Slide Library charges .25 cents per slide plus actual film & processing costs. The duplicate slides are not labeled or mounted in archival mounts. The Slide Library will only create a maximum of 70 duplicate images per 12 month period, per faculty member.

Digital Images
The Slide Library is experimenting with slide digitization. At present we do not provide or create digital images. If you wish to create a digital image by either a flatbed or slide scanner you may use the Media Lab located in the Heimbold Center, Room 209. If you have further questions regarding the Slide Library's digitization policies please speak to Bianca Hook.

Donations
The Slide Library does not accept image donations in digital format. The Slide Library will accept 35mm film slide donations solely at the discretion of the curatorial staff. Slide donations must meet the following criteria for acceptance which can include: relevancy to the existing collection, image documentation, and image quality. If you have questions please contact Bianca Hook.