This directory eases your selection process by listing, describing, and indexing by subject more than 350 image sources in the United States, Canada, and abroad-including museums, institutions, individuals, and consortiums. It also provides evaluative comments about products and services to help you make better purchasing decisions. A section new to this edition lists 50 digital image providers. In the next three parts, slide providers, organized by geographic areas, are fully described. Each entry describes the size of the collection and what subjects it covers, notes purchasing and rental policies and the price range of images, and discusses how the images were originally produced and subsequently reproduced.
Critical comments address product quality, documentation, and service.
Concluding the book are appendixes that list sources no longer providing images in the United States and Canada and sources of slides that are coordinated with texts. Evaluative comments help you make better use of acquisitions funds and provide you with information about important professional standards, thus resulting in improved product and service quality. It is an essential purchase for academic and special libraries that support the study of art and architecture. Visual resources curators, librarians, teachers, photo researchers, and scholars will all appreciate this book. Sponsored by the Visual Resources Association.