For details of opening times and services, see the description of the slide Library below. Books and other retrieved information such as articles, exhibition reviews and newspaper cuttings are collected, and displayed next to the library desk, together with a poster. Self-Study Displays are based on a particular subject or theme. Either supporting a current London exhibition, or as requested by a member of the academic staff to supplement a current project or course of study, or, as decided by the Library to tie in with current themes and thinking on Art and Design.
Displays run for about a six week period.
The Slide Library consists of about 90,000 slides, mainly images of Art, Design and Architecture plus contextual subject areas relevant to their study such as Social History , Industrial History and Political History. All UWIC staff and students are welcome to borrow slides from the Library. The primary users of the Collection, the lecturers in the History and Theory of Art and Design are given priority borrower status. This Collection was built up over the last couple of decades by that group of staff in order to illustrate their teaching programmes. So long as the slides are not needed for HTAD teaching others may borrow the slides for a strictly limited period.