Digital Collections
The Look-Here! Project has enabled VADS to make a number of digitised collections available to the education community via its online hosting service at vads.ac.uk. This includes content contributed by the Look-Here! Project partners as well as images from a number of other libraries, museums, and archives in the wider arts education sector. This includes:
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Digitised images of over 1500 objects from the Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDiP)
A further 200 digitised objects added to the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles: Materials Collection
A unique file relating to the planning of the 1951 Festival of Britain, from the Design Council Archive at University of Brighton
Almost 400 works from the Hampshire County Council Contemporary Art Collection
A sample of approximately 100 images from the High Wycombe Furniture Archive at Bucks New University
A further 2000 digitised images added to the London College of Fashion Woolmark Company Collection
Richard Rutt Collection of Victorian Knitting Books, from the Knitting Reference Library, Winchester School of Art Library
Over 1100 images launched from the Royal College of Art Collection
Over 5400 images from the Royal College of Art Record of Student Work
Tom Cross Archive at University College Falmouth
The Victor Stiebel Archive at London College of Fashion
A selection of images from the Women's Library Suffrage Collection at London Metropolitan University
Forthcoming collections that are due to be launched in 2011/12, include:
- Bradford College Textile Archive
- Images from the JISC 'Digital Images for Education' project
If you are interested in depositing with VADS, please contact us