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:: Clients of the Archivision Research Library (136 as of Sept. 2023)

Institution Modules Owned DAM/DAP In Use
Academy of Art San Francisco access to FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 8) SIMPLY SUBSCRIBE (LUNA option)
Alberta College of Art and Design Base, Mods 1-2
Allegheny College (Base - Mod 7) LUNA Site License (LUNA free hosting)
Amherst College FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 15, plus all art modules) DigiTool, LUNA hosting (wAH)
Arizona State University FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 9) EmbARK Web Kiosk & MDID, ARTstor Hosting
Art Center College of Design (Pasadena) Base, Mods 1-2 LUNA Site License
BAnQ - Bib. et Archives nationales due Quebec Base - Mod 18, plus art mods A-B MDID hosting(wAH)
Binghamton University Base - Mod 15, plus all art mods Jstor Forum
Bronx Museum of Art Base, Mods 1-2  
Brown University, RI FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 18, plus all art modules) LUNA hosting (wAH)
Claremont Colleges FULL LIBRARY via LUNA subscription
Carleton University FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 15) MDID3 w/ vrcHost
Catholic University of America Base EmbARK Web Kiosk
City College of the City University of New York FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 8) MDID3 w/ vrcHost>
Colgate University FULL LIBRARY (Base, Base - Mod 18) MDID
Colby College Base, Mods 1-4 LUNA Site License (LUNA free hosting)
College of the Holy Cross Base, Mods 1-5 ARTstor Hosting
Cornell University FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 13) LUNA Site License (LUNA free hosting / Shared Shelf
Dalhousie University FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 14) LUNA paid Hosting (wAH)
Davidson College FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 15, plus all art modules) MDID Hosting
DePaul University access to FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 9) SIMPLY SUBSCRIBE (LUNA option)
Duke University Base, Mods 1-8 MDID
Emily Carr University Base, Mods 1-5 ARTstor Hosting, CONTENTdm
Emory University Base, Mods 1-5 LUNA Hosting (wAH)
Ferris State University Base, Mods 1-3 EmbARK Web Kiosk
Florida Atlantic University Base, Mods 1-3 Archivision MDID hosting
Georgia Tech Base MDID
Grinnell College Base - Mod 13 plus all art modules MDID
Hampshire College FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 14, , plus art mods A - D) DSpace, LUNA paid Hosting (wAH)
Harrington College of Design Base, Mods 1-3 MDID
Harvard University Base, Mods 1 Local system
Hobart & William Smith Colleges Base LUNA Site License
Indiana University Base ARTstor Hosting
Ithaca College, Art History Dept. Base Extensis Portfolio
James Madison University Base MDID
John Hopkins University Base - mod 15 plus all art modules Jstor Forum
Lafayette College FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 9) CONTENTdm
Kansas State University FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 8) Archivision MDID Hosting
Judson University Base, Mods 1-2 Archivision MDID Hosting
Lewis & Clark College Base, Mods 1-5 MDID, ARTstor Hosting
Louisiana Tech. University, School of Architecture Base EmbARK Web Kiosk
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Base, Mods 1-8 home built system
Memphis College of Art Mod 3 ARTstor Hosting
Miami University of Ohio Base Almagest, ARTstor Hosting
Middlebury College Base, Mods 1-5 ARTstor Hosting
Mount Allison University Base, Mods 1-2 LUNA Site License
Mt. Holyoke College FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 15) LUNA paid hosting) (wAH)
Mt. San Antonio College Base, Mods 1 - 13 MDID
National Gallery of Art - Washington, DC FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 18, plus all Art Modules) home built system
Oklahoma State University FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 9) Archivision MDID Hosting
Ontario College of Art & Design Base Extensis
Penn State University Base, Mod 1 home built system
Philadelphia University Base, Mod 1 MDID
Princeton University FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 14) Almagest, ARTstor Hosting
Reed College FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 8) CONTENTdm, ARTstor Hosting
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Base home built system
Rice University Base, Mods 1-5 MDID, ARTstor Hosting
Roger Williams University Base, Mods 1-5 MDID, ARTstor Hosting
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Base + ONE MDID, ARTstor Hosting
School of the Visual Arts Base, Mods 1-2 MDID
Sheffield Hallam University Base, Mods 1-2  
Skidmore College Base, Mods 1-3 ARTstor Hosting
Smith College, Five Colleges FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 15, plus all art modules) LUNA hosting (wAH)
Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc) FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 18) Subscribe to Own (Luna option)
Southern Methodist University Base, Mods 1-4 EmbARK Web Kiosk
Southern University Base  
St. Lawrence University Base ARTstor Hosting
Stanford University FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 14, plus art mods A-D) EmbARK, ARTstor Hosting
Syracuse University FULL LIBRARY (Base - Mod 15) vrcHost MDID Subscribe to Own hosting
Texas A&M University - School of Architecture Base, Mods 1-2 MDID
Texas Tech University FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-15) CONTENTdm
Tulane University Base, Mods 1-12 ARTstor Hosting
Union College Base ARTstor Hosting
University of Arkansas Base, Mods 1-4 MDID; ARTstor hosing
University of British Columbia Base, Mods 1-6 LUNA hosting (wAH)
U of CA Berkeley Base, Mods 1-2 CDL, ARTstor Hosting
U of CA Davis Base, Mods 1-2 CDL, ARTstor Hosting
U of CA Irvine Base, Mods 1-2 CDL, ARTstor Hosting
U of CA Los Angeles Base, Mods 1-2 CDL, ARTstor Hosting
U of CA Merced Base, Mods 1-2 CDL, ARTstor Hosting
U of CA Riverside Base, Mods 1-2 CDL, ARTstor Hosting
U of CA San Diego Base, Mods 1-2 CDL, ARTstor Hosting
U of CA San Francisco Base, Mods 1-2 CDL, ARTstor Hosting
U of CA Santa Barbara Base, Mods 1-2 and 4 CDL, ARTstor Hosting
U of CA SAN Bernadeino FULL LIBRARY, Base, Mods 1-18 JSTORE hosting
U of CA Santa Cruz Base, Mods 1-2 CDL, ARTstor Hosting
University of Calgary FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-8) CONTENTdm, ARTstor Hosting
University of Chicago FULL LIBRARY via subscription LUNA subscription (wAH)
University of Cincinnati FULL LIBRARY base - mod 15 plus all art modules Jstor Forum
University of Colorado at Boulder FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-9) LUNA Site License (LUNA free hosting) (wAH)
University of Colorado at Denver FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-9) LUNA Site License (LUNA free hosting) (wAH)
University of Delaware FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-14, plus Art A-D) ARTstor Hosting
University of Edinburgh Base LUNA Site License
University of Ho Chi Minh City Base  
University of Houston Base, Mods 1-6 EmbARK Web Kiosk, ARTstor Hosting
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Base, Mods 1-5 Luna hosting* + ARTstor Shared Shelf
University of Iowa Base, Mods 1-5 MDID
University of Kansas FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-9) LUNA Site License
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Base, Mods 1-2 home built system
University of MA, Amherst FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1- 18, plus all art modules) LUNA hosting (wAH)
University of Michigan FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-18, plus all art modules) home built system
Universite de Montreal FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-18) Archivision MDID Hosting
University of Nebraska-Lincoln FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-9) CONTENTdm
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Base, Mods 1-4 ARTstor Hosting
University of New Mexico FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-9) DSpace
University of North Carolina FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-18, plus all art modules) EmbARK Web Kiosk
University of Oregon Base, Mods 1-13 CONTENTdm
University of Oxford FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-8) Simply Subscribe in MDID3 w/ vrcHost
University of Ottawa Base, Mods 1-5 MDID
University of Pennsylvania FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-9) ARTstor Shared Shelf
University of Puerto Rico access to FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-18, plus all art modules) SIMPLY SUBSCRIBE (LUNA option)
University of Richmond Base Module Shared Shelf
University of Texas at Arlington, School of Architecture Base, Mod 1 MDID
University of Texas at Austin FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-7) home built system
University of Toronto Base FADIS
University of Virginia FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-8) ARTstor Shared Shelf
University of Washington Libraries FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-12) DSpace
University of Western Ontario Base, Mods 1-5 MDID
Vanderbilt University FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-8) MDID
Vassar College Base, Mods 1-2 Luna, ARTstor Hosting
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts at Qatar Base Luna Site License
Yale University FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-9) Luna Site License
Williams College FULL LIBRARY (Base, Mods 1-8) CONTENTdm
York University Base, Mods 1-5 ARTstor Hosting

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Client reviews of the Archivision Digital Library

:: Review 1 ::

Images that we have licensed from your firm have become the main content of the "Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures" database that we provide to support teaching and research at Penn State. In spite of its relatively small size, that database has proven to be very popular here. The number of connections-per-year ranks in the top one-third of the hundreds of databases we provide to students and faculty.

Henry Pisciotta reports that the quality of your photographs has been praised by many faculty and students and that you have been an especially cooperative and enjoyable vendor. Adding additional Archivision images to our existing collections will be a boon to teaching in design and related disciplines.

Nancy L. Eaton
Dean of University Libraries and
Scholarly Communication

The Pennsylania State University
510 Paterno Library
Univrsity Park, PA 16802

 

:: Review 2 ::

The College of Architecture at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte has been an Archivision client since their base collection was released in 2004. There are so many advantages to the Archivision collection, including:

1. Immediate access to 28,000 high-quality images. With the purchase of the base package, I was able to jump-start our digital collection with a strong set of core images.

2. The addition modules that Archivision releases annually, each containing 6,000 images, allows for planned growth of my collection.

3. Very extensive metadata attached to each image. This metadata now conforms to the VRA Core 4.0 validating XML and is mappable to Excel.

4. In addition, Archivision has created pre-built Archivision templates for MDID, Luna, EmbARK, and VCat for each Archivision Library Module. This means that anyone using these delivery or cataloguing systems can purchase the Archivision collection and eliminate weeks and months of set-up time. This feature alone is priceless!

5. For those that subscribe to ARTstor, which we do, you can also gain immediate access to Archivision modules within your ARTstor subscription, at no additional costs. This allows seamless searches with ARTstor and Archivision content, while greatly expanding the available architecture and landscape architecture content for our ARTstor users. Archivision also provides a hosted solution with Luna for those that do not have ARTstor.

6. Extremely reasonable cost of the package - when you consider the images, metadata, pre-built collections and access options, and customer service you receive, it is clear this is an excellent value for the money.

Since I began building the digital collection here at UNC-C, Scott has continuously provided outstanding products and services. He has helped make the digital transition virtually effortless by offering outstanding customer service - he has a way of always anticipating his customer's needs. I could not be more pleased with the products and service that Archivision offers.

Jenna A. Duncan
Visual Resources Lecturer
College of Architecture
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223
(704) 687-4025

http://coavrc.uncc.edu/


:: Review 3 ::

We just licensed the full digital image archive from Archivision and we are really thrilled with it!

The collection reflects owner Scott Gilchrist's background in Architecture (B.A. in Architecture and M.A. in Architecture History). He also began the Visual Resources Centre in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, University of Toronto, in the early 1990s, building and organizing the collection in the early days of computerization, so he knows just what VR Curators are going through and the kind of things we need and want. He then turned his focus to professional photography and setting up Archivision. He also became a professional stock photographer for Masterfile (you can see a selection of these images at masterfile.com by typing Scott Gilchrist into the search field).

So he's brought all this experience and photographic skill to Archivision. All of his 100,000+ slides are headed towards his digital collection. The 1,400 images seen on the Masterfile site are just a mere sample when compared to what is available at Archivision.

The images are beautiful, but moreover, the entire content of the Archivision collection is relevant to those seeking to build or augment architecture or design collections.

This is a great collection for those who are just in the beginning phases of digitization, or even those, like us, who are in the midst and need a high quality supply of images and related data.

Moreover, the owner, Scott Gilchrist, is really attuned to his users and extremely willing to help us meet our needs. His next goal is to expand the contemporary and non-Western collection. So we're looking forward to our next archive installment, especially of his up-coming trip to cover new architecture in the Pacific Rim. The collection from Archivision works really well for us. And I happily recommend it to anyone.

Samantha Pawley
Visual Resource Curator

Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design
University of Toronto
230 College Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 1R2
Ph. 416.978.0860
Fx. 416.971.2094
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