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This article offers tips for libraries affected by the decision of several companies to discontinue manufacturing slide projectors in the U.S. As more vendors discontinue manufacturing traditional slide projectors lines in favor of digital projectors and other more advanced technologies, the extensive slide collections housed in art departments, museums, special collections, and art and architecture libraries are facing extinction. Replacement parts, like carousels and bulbs, for aging slide projectors are becoming increasingly difficult to find and expensive to pay for. With only five functioning slide projectors in the possession of the Furman University Art Department, the Furman University Libraries and the Computing and Information Services department, initiated a project to investigate alternative ways to provide access to the 30,000 images housed in the slide library, once the remaining slide projectors no longer function. In the winter of 2004, the Furman University Libraries focused on the evaluation of ARTstor. They conducted a university wide trial and solicited feedback from faculty across campus. The images, which include pictures of paintings, photography, sculpture and more, can be downloaded for use in PowerPoint presentations and classroom lectures. |
