Mission

Access to the Collection

Slide Circulation Procedures

Copyright Restrictions

Student Employment

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Access through www.williams.edu/ArtHistory/SlideLib, click on quick links: Williams Visual Resources Gallery.

Instructions for basic use:

1. Find images:
Search with basic subject term or
Advanced search (mustard color tool bar)
Click on image, evaluate image using tools in gray tool bar (zoom, pan, maximize, etc.)

2. Select images:
Click on box next to image to choose images for a group
Click on “add to favorites” in purple tool bar

3. Organize image group: Open “my favorites” (purple tool bar)
Left purple tool bar functions:
Create “slides” for a presentation
Reorder (move) or remove an image
For impromptu viewing, use ”slideshow” to present image group as a live presentation in the classroom using comparison, zoom, or fit to window features, or

4. Download image group to your hard drive:
Download a “favorites” image group (left purple toolbar)
Save as webpage:
            Name it (or not)
            Click on box next to “presentation”
            Click “create”
            Web browser -  File: “save as”, choosing site and: “webpage, complete (*.htm,*.html)” and

5. Integrate “my favorites” image group with other images in a PowerPoint presentation or ARTstor OIV presentation:

PC users:
a. Save as a PowerPoint presentation
download the PowerPoint plug-in per directions on the Visual Resources Center home page: Williams Collections Online / PowerPoint Plug-in
            open PowerPoint
            click on the ContentDM button below “file”

b. Integrate into the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV):
Open OIV, select local images from “Insert” menu, move images singly or as a group from “my favorites” group into the image palette.

MAC users:
c. Open PowerPoint, from “insert / new” move images singly from local favorites folder on your hard drive.
d. Integrate into ARTstor Offline Viewer (OIV):
            Open OIV, select local images from “Insert” menu. May either drag and drop images singly or move as a group from local favorites folder on your hard drive.

6. Additional Features:
Set viewing preferences for finding images
Cut a detail from an image and save it as a slide
Present two images at a time in the classroom, or four images at a time with two projectors.
Create a randomized flashcard quiz