Collections
College of Environmental Design Visual Resources Center (CED VRC)
Pacific Film Archive Library (PFA)
Specimen Management System of California Herbaria (SMASCH)
California Sheet Music Project (CSMP)
Slavic Department Lantern Slide Collection
The MIP archive is made up of 10 collections, some very small, some fairly large – some inactive, some still very active.
College of Environmental Design Visual Resources Center, formerly the Architecture Slide Library
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/spiro/
Material from the College of Environmental Design Visual Resources Center makes up the largest collection in the MIP archive containing digital photographs and scanned 35mm slides. This collection currently
contains about 65,000 items occupying just over one Terabyte of MediaVault storage. Versions of this material is also available at ARTstor.
Pacific Film Archive Library (PFA)
This is the second largest – the largest in terms of number of items – and the
most active collection. The collection contains 121,000 image files ( 0.5 Terabytes of storage ). It is currently growing at the rate of about 5-6 GB/month. This project is
funded by NEH and IMLS grants. The principle use of these images is for
scholarly research, provided through the Cinefiles website.
Specimen Management System of California Herbaria (SMASCH)
This is the specimen collection from the University and Jepson Herbarium, which is currently inactive. It contains 15,000 items, occupying just under 100 Gigabytes of storage. As the herbarium has a project under way to rescan the specimen sheets with better, higher quality equipment, these images are becoming obsolete.
California Sheet Music Project (CSMP)
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~mkduggan/neh.html
The CSMP collection is not very active. Most of this project was completed several years ago, but we still receive occasional additions to the collection. There are 12,000 images (about 200 Gigabytes) including scanned images of sheet music and sheet music covers, as well as accompanying MIDI sound files. This project was funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Slavic Department Lantern Slide Collection
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/slavic
There is a small but significant collection of Czech and Polish lantern slides from the Slavic Languages and Literature Department. This collection contains 2,000 images. These slides were originally created, though some of them are re-creations, by Alexander Kaun, the founder the the UC Slavic Department in the 1920’s and are of real historical interest. This collection is, of course, inactive.
