Art, Architecture and Design

While it's fairly likely that the record for the world's largest indoor photo is not something any of us wonders about very often, it is nice to know that the record-breaking photo is of a library--namely, the Philosophical Library at Strahov Monastery, Prague.

The Art & Architecture Library's Visual Resources Center (VRC) provides images in both slide and digital formats to support teaching and research at Stanford University. The VRC has over 320,000 35mm slides and over 57,000 digital images. Strengths include European, American, Chinese and Japanese art. Collection development is driven primarily by faculty request.

The VRC is located in room AR3, in the bottom level of the Cummings Art Building and is open by appointment from 9:00 to 5:00, Monday through Friday.

Some of you may wonder where we find the Locked Stacks materials we display in exhibitions, show to classes, and page for patrons upon request. Here is an introduction to one of our sources, Ars Libri, and one of its extremely knowledgeable staff members, David Stang. The story includes a link to a longer article about the company's founder, Elmar Seibel. Visit Ars Libri's Web site in order to view recent catalogs devoted to topics such as modern art and calligraphy.

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