Visual Resources Library

The Visual Resources Library is housed in the Department of Art and Art History and staffed by a visual resources librarian. The librarian is available by appointment for research consultations with students and faculty. Images are accessible to all students across campus, regardless of discipline.

Image Guide
The library maintains an online image guide to provide information for searching, sharing, presenting and managing images.

ARTstor
Boatwright Memorial Library subscribes to ARTstor, a database of over one million images for teaching and learning. Local collections (15,000 images digitized to meet local teaching needs) are also delivered in ARTstor and can searched with the other collections or can be browsed individually by navigating to the database, then clicking the “University of Richmond Teaching Image Collection” or “University of Richmond Scholar’s Resource Images” links.   ARTstor is available only to the University of Richmond community. Once a log-in and password are established, images may be organized, studied, and downloaded for use in presentations and term papers from either on or off-campus. Many professors organize images for study in ARTstor, from which they may be printed or studied online.

Art Subject Guide
The library’s art subject page is a helpful resource with RSS feeds from museum podcasts and international art news.

Visual Resource Library Book Reference Collection
The Visual Resources Library maintains a database of the reference books in its collection.

Visual Resource Library DVD Collection
The Visual Resource Library maintains a collection of DVDs relating to the subject and study of art. The videos are only available for use in the classroom.