The majority of the slides are acquired by in-house copy photography or commercial vendors. The slides represent images of paintings, sculpture, architecture, minor arts, maps and nonwestern art including Japanese, Indian, Chinese, African, Southeast Asia and Middle Eastern. There is a rapidly expanding contemporary art section which includes performance and video art. Slides are arranged by medium, by period and country, then alphabetically by artists name or architect for all art from the Seventeenth Century and before. Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth-century art is arranged alphabetically by artist, combining the mediums of painting, graphics, minor arts, sculpture, multimedium and performance.
Faculty members pull needed slides utilizing a colored check out card system.
They then return them to their individual drop boxes upon completion of their classes. Slides circulated to non-departmental faculty and students are manually listed in a circulation log book. Slides lent to non-departmental users may be checked out one hour before class and returned one hour after class is completed. Limited hours during regularly scheduled Denison University vacations. This building is located on the lower campus, behind Cleveland Hall , which faces College Street.