Slide library
Other academic disciplines, such as biology and other sciences, also maintain image collections akin to slide libraries.
35mm adopted as the international standard gauge by Motion Picture Patents Company, an Edison trust 1913.
Huge debates begin about whether 35mm color film is stable enough for adoption and whether the loss of clarity will ruin the teaching of art history.
Visual resources curators begin meeting during annual College Art Association (CAA) conferences 1969.
Mid-America College Art Association slides and photographs newsletter begins publishing under the leadership of Nancy DeLaurier 1974.
Slide libraries : a guide for academic institutions, museums, and special collections, by Betty Jo Irvine with assistance from P. Eileen Fry.
Guide to Copy Photography for Visual Resource Collections, edited by Rosemary Kuehn and Arlene Zelda Richardson, published by MACAA/VR 1980.
Visual Resources: an international journal of documentation launched by Helene Roberts, published by Iconographic Publications 1980.
Sara Shatford Layne publishes "Analyzing the Subject of a Picture: A Theoretical Approach"in Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, vol.
Toni Petersen, President of ARLIS/NA, urges the Visual Resources Division, to begin developing some standard authorities for shared cataloging 1988.
Art and Architecture Thesaurus, Toni Petersen, editor, published by Oxford University Press in 3 volumes.
Critical step in providing subject access to individual 35mm slides in visual resources collections 1990.
Beyond the Book: Extending MARC for Subject Access, edited by Toni Petersen and Pat Molholt, by G.K. Hall.
Several papers on visual resources, including : "Access to Diverse Collections in University Settings: the Berkeley Dilemma", by Howard Besser and Maryly Snow, and "Visual Depictions and the Use of MARC: A View from the Trenches of Slide Librarianship", by Maryly Snow 1990.
Facilities Standards for Art Libraries and Visual Resources Collections, edited by Betty Jo Irvine.
World Architecture Index: a Guide to Illustrations, compiled by Edward H. Teague, published by Greenwood Press as part of its Art Reference Collection No.
Users' Guide to The Art and Architecture Thesaurus, published along with the electronic edition by Oxford University Press 1993.
Marc Andreessen leaves National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to found the Mosaic Communications Corp, later becomes Netscape.
Concordance of Ancient Site Names, edited by Eileen Fry and Maryly Snow, published as Topical Paper No.
ArtMARC Sourcebook: Cataloging Art, Architecture, and Their Visual Images, edited by Linda McRae and Lynda White, published by American Library Association 2000.
Criteria for the Hiring and Retention of Visual Resources Professionals updated, and adopted by ARLIS/NA, VRA, and College Art Association 2004.
Edited by Murtha Baca, Patricia Harpring, Elisa Lanzi, Linda McRae, Ann Baird Whiteside on behalf of the Visual Resources Association [8] 2007.
VRA Core 4.0 released [9] Visual Resource Collections: Image Databases: How to Digitize Slide Libraries: Professional Organizations:
