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Selected examples include: Digitization Services lab (located in the main library), Fine Arts Visual Resource Center
(located in a branch library).
Service desks are provided in our Archives &Special Collections Department on our Ft. Garry campus and in the Medical
Archives in the Neil John MacLean Health Sciences Library on our Bannatyne campus.
Service points are in Image Collections &Services unit at UW Bothell Campus Library, part of the UW Libraries system,
and in Visual Resources collections in the School of Art and College of Built Environments.
Services in support of digital resources are provided library-wide.
Special Collections and Archives Rivera Library and Orbach Science Library reference desks Map Collection (in Orbach
Science Library) Water Resources Collection and Archives (in Orbach Science Library).
Support for the use of locally created digital images is provided by a combination of staff in Special Collections and our
Digital Research and Publishing Department. Use of licensed image resources is provided by reference staff both in our
Main Library and our Art Library.
The Architecture Library manages most of the purchased resources at our institution. They are a branch of the main
library.
The curators of the collections offer some support as to the content within the collection. The reference libraries will
answer very basic inquiries and will direct inquiries to others who then can provide further information.
The Fine Arts Library and the Special Collections Library, the VRC in the Art Department, the Fralin Art Museum
The library provides access to many of its digital image resources in several reading rooms. As determined by the specific
license agreement, access to some digital image resources is limited to the Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
There are various units, groups, and people that support the use of different digital image databases/resources for
different support needs. This is done, to some degree, by all faculty and staff in the libraries.
These services are “by appointment only” in the library that primarily serves the School of Architecture and Planning.
This is not a “drop in” service point.
These services points include the Help Desk and Archives and Special Collections.
Two special collections reading rooms
Visual Resources Collection and its staff are part of the university library system but located within a branch adjacent to
Art/Art History/Design faculty and classrooms.
Web services is in the main library. Information services is in the main library. E-resources is in the main library. The
Metadata Unit is part of the cataloging department. Information Services is in the main library. Digital Services is a
specialized unit in a branch library where special collections are housed.
Within the main library, Reference provides support for the use of digital images. In addition, Archives &Special
Collections, the Art Library, the Music Library, and the Health Sciences Library also provide support. From outside the
libraries, the Visual Resources Center supports faculty and student use of their images.
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