Architecture Image Collection Celebrates One Year Anniversary

On May 17, the Digital Media Repository’s Architecture Image Collection at Ball State University Libraries officially turns one year old. The image collection is very popular and heavily used by faculty and students of the College of Architecture and Planning (CAP).

The Architecture Image Collection digitally preserves the existing 35mm slide collection in a digital format as part of the Digital Media Repository, a project sponsored by the University Libraries. The digital images may be browsed, searched, and displayed online. The collection also houses newly purchased digital images, as well as photographs taken by CAP students and faculty during their annual PolyArk World Tours.

Far exceeding its original projected growth, the online collection currently houses more than 22,500 images. Processing collection resources to make them digitally accessible requires services from personnel in several departments, including Original Cataloging, Bibliographic Control, Physical Processing, Library Information Technology Services, the CAP Visual Resources Center, and from the Metadata and Digital Initiatives unit. To learn more, visit www.bsu.edu/library/article/0,,36819--,00.html

This article was published in The Library Insider May 2006, pg. 5.