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Visual Resource Assoc. deals with art & slide image collections housed at many universities, libraires & museums. Notes extracted, compiled, edited, expanded from VRA list server spring '98 Slide sources & data base at end of this list Slide Cabinets- to store or to view & use Remington Rand was a source for large slide cabinets. Neumade cabinets have the supreme advantage of being readily available and reasonable. They are modular, Buy them as you need them. Their disadvantages are that they are small, the channels narrow and low so they do not accommodate cards (backup or borrower) as well as some cabinets. The drawers are easily removable, but they tilt dangerously if extended, and there has always seemed to be a hazard associated with this. You can order cabinets with wider channels,
but the overall storage capacity will be less. Luxor makes a large
capacity cabinet, but I have heard a lot of negatives about those cabinets.
With Neumade, you can choose group filing.
Ideal system to get slides in use,
circulation, easy visual access. View other options at: http://www.davidson.edu/academic/art/slicopix.htm These are Lyons modular cabinets. Each one is 59"H x 30"W x 28"D, with 10 slide drawers and one large base drawer (for slide boxes, carousel trays, transmogrifiers, etc). There is 3 1/4" of overhead in each drawer (plenty of room for divider cards). Each provides about 192" of slide space per drawer, or 160' of same per cabinet. Recent priced $1,434.00 from a Charlotte, NC company. The equivalent slide-length in Neumade cabinets costs about $2,300.00. Mind you, this is no Remington Rand but it comes closer than any other I've seen. With no Neumade headaches. Jeffrey S. Erickson Scala slides can be purchased through: Davis Art Slides For Scala slides that were in the Sandak
holdings, Someone suggested that Pierre bought the
remaining Sandak holdings of Scala slides, but that Rosenthal/Davis Pub has now
contracted with Scala to be the US distributor.
Icarus - Image Provider Directory at IDEALIST software allows for a very flexible organization of your resources, It is a mixture of database / information retrieval system, developed by British science publisher BLACKWELL's Use for addresses, bibliographic references, WWW references, keeping track of ideas, for records with different field structure in the same database. Insert graphics or images in most of the standard graphics file formats into a database field. Idealist indexes everything in every record, thus allowing for very fast and convenient searches. You don't have to remember which field you stored the information in. You may also import, export to and from the standard database and text file formats. There is a version for WIN95. For more information:
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