KEY RULES
Do not touch the actual film of the slide.
Do not ask for rush services.
Do not allow for undergraduates to use the slides. *(See notes)
Do not project a slide for over one minute.
Do not leave a slide in the heat, such as in a car.
Do not keep the slides, even for future presentations ** (see note below).
Do not leave slides or books on the light table indefinitely.
Do not keep projectors for yourself.
Do not enter without knowing your alarm code and be ready to use it.
Sign out for everything, fully & print legibly.
USE OF THE COLLECTION
The Slide Collection is a Teaching Resource not a Student Resource.
Please check out slides using check out sleeves.
Then photocopy the clear sleeves so that the titles copy.
Write your name, date and place the Xerox in the checkout box.
OR
You may itemize them by category on paper.
This allows us to know where the slides are at all times, and allows for an
end of the year analysis on how the collection is being used.
Please return your slides to your bin for check in.
GENERAL
When looking for a slide note that we have the slides organized into three
collections, by ARCHITECT, LOCATION OR SUBJECT.
The slide labels include 5 data fields:
ARCHITECT
NAME OF BUILDING
LOCATION
DATE
An orientation dot on the lower left-hand corner. It assists placement of
slides.
If you notice that it is hot in the slide library (78 degrees) please turn
on the backup AC Unit at the rear of the room.
If you have further questions please ask our staff or me. We will be glad
to help. Emergencies call 8-6666.
USE OF THE COPYSTAND AND DUPLICATOR
Use of this equipment is open to all students and faculty. Brief instruction
is given its use. We recommend
Ektachrome 64T film at f4.8 & 1/30th of a second for copy photography. Do not
use Daylight film unless with a blue filter. 64T is available at professional
labs and at The Image Archives. For slide duplicating we recommend Kodaks Slide
duplicating film, or send out. Model photography is also possible in our studio.
Reservations are required for the use of this studio and equipment. We hold them
15 minutes. We strongly discourage photography of large drawings due to poor
results. There is a remote copy stand at 35B Rm104b. Use your 3666 key 24hrs
p/day.
REMOTE COPYSTAND
There is a remote 24hr. Copy stand for use by anyone with the key to 35B
Room104b. No reservations. Self serve. Leave with lights off.
There is a Bogen stand with Bogen heads @ 3200 degrees K., 250W Tungsten.
VIDEO TAPES/DVDs
We have over 400 Videotapes. A catalog is available
Videotapes must be signed out for. Fill in each blank clearly.
5 days for faculty. 24hours for Underg. & Grad. Students. 2 videos max per
day.
FACULTY USE
Orientation is provided at the beginning of each term. Faculty has 24-hour
access to the collection at this point, unless projectors are not returned.
You will need a pas key and an alarm code, and password should police call.
Always fill a check out with a slide sleeve when taking slides and Xerox
them or list them.
Slides from books are made for lectures upon request.
An extra set for the proffesor is available at .75 a slide/dupes $1.50.
A seven-day turn around is our minimum.
Please do not ask for rush services.
Please do not ask that an exception be made for your undergraduates.
Slides may be kept out a maximum of five days by faculty.
Please do not hold slides indefinitely for exams and then return them at
the end of the term without consideration of others.
If you hear a tone when you arrive the alarm is active and must be
deactivated or a piercing alarm will sound.
The alarm is often on, particularly active late, after hours and early
morning.
There is a $25.00 fee charged to us and passed on to you for false alarms.
We pay over
$ 400 per year in false alarms out of our budget.
The Police come, and the curator is called, paged & cell.
Simltataneously-24hrs.
Do not give the two codes to anyone.
Keys for faculty and Image Archive Staff are available upon request until
the UM ID is used as the coded key to enter. The alarm also will require a
personal code from you. Graduate students may be inside during regular hours and
under supervision of a faculty member in the slide area.
The Image Archive must close early before hurricane approaches.
GRADUATE STUDENT USE
Orientation is provided. Graduate St. may use the collection, under
supervision.
Slides are checked out the day before presentation and put in their
carousels in the Image Archive until the following day: within 24 hours.
The slides are returned immediately after the presentation.
They may also shoot their own slides under supervision.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT USE
Unfortunately under no circumstances may undergraduates use the slide
collection.
The Slide Collection is a teaching resource, not a student resource.
To prepare presentations they may use the photo studio. They are encouraged
to make their own slides, and with 5 minutes of instruction & our Nikon
equipment, the results are very good, and they will have a new skill.
We also have founded a digital image database with undergraduate access to
images strongly in mind. See notes below on Image Axs and the CD Jukebox.
PROJECTORS AND CAROUSELS
A limited number of projectors are available for faculty and graduate
student use.
Faculty may not keep projectors for the semester out of consideration of
others.
They must be checked out in the book provided.
They must be returned immediately, we do run out.
Two carousels will be issued to each faculty member that requests them: on
long-term loan, i.e. all academic year/ optional. Do not take a projector for a
year.
Additional carousels may be purchased from a photo supply house or from the
archives at cost ($10)
DIGITAL IMAGING
SLIDE SCANNER
We have a Nikon slide scanner. Bring Media (Zip) to store your scan or have
it sent to PUBLIC or IA-PUBLIC for retrieval. Reservations are often
required.
IMAGEAXS/Embark: Searchable digital image Database on line.
DIGITAL IMAGE COLLECTION MAMANGEMENT SOFTWARE
An image Relational Database with full search capabilities. For windows go to
PROGRAMS: Image AXS. For Macintosh: open the ImageAXS icon. It is a sort of
electronic matrix of architectural precedent. Plans are to put it on an the web
or intra-net.
CDSERVER/JUKEBOX: Digital Images online.
The CDJukebox is Mass Storage of Images in a CD Tower/ Server, that access
images much like any jukebox searching for a CD. Our CDJukebox is a hybrid in
that many of the CDs are an exact copy or Image of a CD downloaded into this
server.
WINDOWS: go to Chooser: go to Appleshare: go to CDJukebox: navigate to your
image or copy.
Faculty adds a CD to the CDJ by delivering it to the curator.
ROOM 302: VIDEO MEDIA
This is our only digital projector at this date. It is fixed to the room.
Bldg 48E-302 now has a Video Rack with a new 35 Sony Triton Monitor, DVD,
and VCR. Easy to use. On monitor, on DVD or Vcr, Select button on Video 1 or 2.
Again, if you have any questions or need assistance ask any staff member, or
the curator, we will be glad to help. Look forward to continued improvements.
Havana photograph by Victor Deupi
