Visual Resources, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Address:
48 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Contact:
Alix Reiskind
Visual Resources Librarian
Telephone:
617-496-8673
Fax:
617-496-5929
Email:
Repository website URL:
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/loeb_library/visual_resources/
Description of repository / collection image holdings:
The Visual Resources Department's collections include digital images, 35mm slides, photographs, lantern slides, maps, architectural and landscape drawings, videotapes, DVDs and CD-ROMs. The collections focus on 20th and 21st century architecture, urban planning, urban design and landscape architecture; but we also have historic photographs, lantern slides and maps from the 19th century. The collection is open to the Harvard community; upon special arrangement the collection may be consulted by outside users.
What we have in VIA:
Our digital image and 35mm slide collections can be found in VIA. The majority of our image collection represents sites or built works focusing on 20th/21st century design – architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning & design.
How we use VIA
Most of the "work" records that come from the Visual Resources Department represent sites or built works. Site records are used to describe the content of the built environment:
- buildings (example: Fallingwater)
- monuments (example: Statue of Liberty)
- site-specific shrines
- complexes (example: Alhambra)
- landscape architecture, open spaces, streets, cemeteries
- bridges, airports
- archaeological sites (example: Delphi)
- cities and neighborhoods (example: Athens)
Site records can also apply to significant named natural features:
- mountains, rivers, islands, other geographic features.
In addition to sites, "works" found in the Visual Resources Department may include unbuilt projects and original works of art created by architects. The "work" record contains information pertaining to the original item or site, including artist or architect, location of the original item or site, date(s) of the original item or site, etc.
Associated with each "work" record is one or more "surrogate" records. The "surrogate" record describes the slide or digital image that shows the site or original work of art. All information found in the "surrogate" record is particular to that "surrogate", perhaps most importantly to the user, the classification number that is used to locate the slide in the repository.
Copyright and Permissions:
The material in this collection is owned or held by the Visual Resources Department, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Some of the images, text and other content in VIA (collectively, the "Content") is protected by copyright law. In some cases, the copyright is owned by other parties, and Harvard is making the Content available to you under license or under the fair use doctrine.
The Content is provided for your personal, noncommercial teaching and research use. You may not copy, publish, post, distribute, display, perform, or otherwise make available any of the Content protected by copyright, except as may be permitted under fair use or another copyright law exemption. If you wish to make any such use of the Content, you must obtain permission from the copyright holder, which may be Harvard or another party. Please contact the Visual Resources Librarian.
Some of the Content may be subject to other restrictions - for example, those imposed by a license agreement. You must comply with any other restrictions and terms of use that are identified in connection with particular Content.
In accessing VIA, you agree to use the Content only in accordance with copyright law and any other identified restrictions, and you assume all liability for any copyright infringement caused by your use. Some information on copyright law and fair use for members of the Harvard community can be found at:
http://ogc.harvard.edu/copyright_docs/copyright_and_fair_use.php