Digital Image Collection Access
All Williams College faculty and students may access the Williams Visual Resources digital image collection directly: http://drm.williams.edu/vrc/, or by navigation from the following department websites: Williams College Department of Art (Resources), Information Technology (Resources, Digital Collections), Sawyer Library (How to Find, Images, Art and Museum Images). Image use is restricted to educational fair use. VRC staff can assist faculty and students in the use of digital projection tools of their choice. Links to two major licensed image databases, ARTstor and CAMIO, are found under the link to the Williams VR Collection on this website's home page.
Remote Access
Instructions are available for remote access to the Williams VRC digital image collection via the proxy server. A Williams username and password are required. Choose your browser from the list and follow the directions to set-up your off-campus connection.
Images for Senior Theses
Review these guidelines for sources and copyright terms.
Slide Collection Access
Faculty Use
All Williams Faculty may borrow art slides. As the collection was developed specifically by art department faculty for their classroom needs, please respect the priority use of these slide images by art faculty. To ensure fair use among faculty, we ask that slides be taken out only for a period of 24 hours. If you require slides for a longer time period, or need one at the same time as an art faculty member, please see the Visual Resources staff who will assist you with your need. Please review slide scanning needs with VRC staff for copyright clearance.
Undergraduate and Graduate Student Use
Students are allowed to borrow slides for classroom presentations or to scan slides after copyright clearance from VRC staff. Students may use the computers, scanners or caramate slide projectors located in the independent users’ room of the Visual Resources Center for digital or slide management. For slide presentations, slides may be pulled in advance and kept in either the independent users’ room of the Visual Resources Center in Lawrence Hall or in the Visual Resources Library in the Clark Art Institute until the day of their presentation. VRC staff will assist students to arrange the slides correctly in carousels or projection boxes. Classroom projectionists will assist students in the classroom as well.
Community Users
Borrowing privileges for slide images may be extended to community users with the permission on the Visual Resources Curator. No community users may scan slides.