Finding Images and Multimedia

Libraries

Art Center College of Design - James Lemont Fogg Memorial Library

The James Lemont Fogg Memorial Library offers a comprehensive collection of resources on art and design, including 69,000 volumes of books and periodicals, 100,000 slides, 4,500 videotapes, 250 DVDs, and 138 laserdiscs of rare features, animation, documentaries, advertising, computer graphics, and instructional programs.

A photo reference collection contains more than 52,000 pictures. Limited and signed editions, portfolios, and other materials can be found in the Rare Book Room. Subscriptions are maintained for more than 400 magazines, while a microfilm collection and Web-based subscriptions provide access to thousands of magazine articles.

Occidental College Library Research Databases - Images

Several reference databases available for searching images.

Occidental Slide Library

The Occidental College Slide Library, now called the Visual Resources Center, is located within the Department of Art History and the Visual Arts in Weingart 209. Its primary purpose is to support the teaching needs of the faculty in the department. The images housed in the Visual Resources Center are also available to faculty and students campus-wide.

The Visual Resources Center houses approximately 65,000 fully cataloged art-related slide images from throughout the world, across a variety of mediums, and covering all time periods from prehistoric to modern. In addition, the Visual Resources Center contains slides of maps, historical photographs, and a variety of didactic or collateral materials.

Search Engines with Image

Altavista Images

"The largest image search on the web."

Google Image Search

An index of over 425 million images.

Online Image Databases

Artchive

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) is a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl. AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. All images displayed on this site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-profit in nature.

California State University World Art Image Database

The World Art image database allows you to search over 30,000 images from throughout the world. Thumbnails are available in the public catalog.  Full size images only available to those on California State campuses.

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

Digital Imaging Project

Art Historical Images taken and posted by Mary Sullivan at Bluffton College.  Over 900 images available free for educational use.

Los Angeles Public Library's Photographic Archives

NYPL Digital Gallery

SIRIS, Smithsonian Institution Research Information System – Archival, Manuscript, and Photographic Collections

Society of Architectural Historians Image Exchange

Images of major monuments American and World architecture.

SPIRO: Environmental Design Image Database of the Architecture Visual Resource Library, University of California, Berkeley

Listings or Clearinghouses of Online Image Databases

Berkeley Digital Library Image Finder

The Berkeley Digital Library Image Finder contains sources to access several collections of digital texts, images, documents, and other important resources. The site also provides information and support to digital library developers.

Clearninghouse of Image Databases and the IMAGELIB listserv archives

An online directory of at the University of Arizona Library. It was created in July 1994 by Stuart Glogoff, Assistant Dean for Library Information Systems at the University of Arizona, who continues to maintain it.

Digital Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web – Images

A librarian's choice of the best image sites on the Web. Includes new and notable sites. Updated weekly.

Online Archive of California

A core component of the California Digital Library, the Online Archive of California (OAC) is a digital information resource that facilitates and provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California.

Moving Images

Internet Movie Archive (see News & Public Affairs)

Collections include streaming video, audio and text.

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress provides a list of international public archives of moving images that you can pursue.

Moving Image Catalog (MIC)

A catalog of holdings in repositories. Note: Library of Congress holdings are included in the MIC holdings

The Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television)

The library at the Beverly Hills location offers 140,000 programs. Searchable catalog and viewing is on-site only. Hours are limited for research.

UCLA Film & Television Archives

Searchable online catalog to one of the world's largest archives. Study copies of television, newsreels and films can be screened at Powell Library on the UCLA campus.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive

An extensive collection of ABC, NBC and CBS news reports. You need to sign up & subscribe to see results w/transcripts then you order tapes. 

Other Useful Links

Copyright Term and Public Domain in the United States.

Chart by Peter Hirtle, Society of American Archivists.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.

Margaret Herrick Library

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. One of the most complete collections of film-related materials assembled.

Mother of All Art History Links Page – Image collections and online art

A group of internet art links based at the University of Michigan.

We welcome your Comments and Suggestions.

Return to Top