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2 2 P E R S P E C T I V E | J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 2 R E S O U R C E S Image Research Websites B Y D AV I D M O R O N G , E D I T O R , A N D N I K K I R U D L O F F, A S S O C I AT E E D I T O R , A N D B A R B A R A H A L L , A D G A R C H I V I S T The recent opening of the Academy Museum and its use of the Academy Collections has inspired a dive into the world of online resources available at some of the great museum and library sites that support online image research. The past many months of pandemic have made these sites an ever-more important source for images and information that cannot be accessed in person, as well as provide a chance to make an online visit and eperience collections that een now are di cult to see in person. hile by no means defi nitie, the sites featured here are some of our old favorites and new discoveries, and provide almost endless opportunities to lose oneself in the many forms of human creativity. A C A D E M Y C O L L E C T I O N S http://collections.new.oscars.org A. THE LANDING PAGE FOR THE ACADEMY COLLECTIONS. For over 90 years, the Margaret Herrick Library has been the most complete collection of images and information relating to the history of motion pictures. hile it is possible to fi nd it under the earn tab at Oscars.org, it is easiset to bookmark the site http:// collections.new.oscars.org to navigate directly to the Academy Collections webpage. Anne Coco, the graphic arts librarian of the collection, noted a recent example of how the archives were used for research is related to the movie Mank. Set decorator Jan Pascale and Production Designer Donald Burt used the collections for their period research on this production. This type of research can be done partially online but with the sheer volume of photos in the archive, it's often necessary to access the physical collections to look for materials that hae not yet been digitied. The reference staff is facilitating this kind of work during the continuing COVID closure. The online collections are organized in nine categories. Of particular interest to designers are the posters and lobby card collections, which off er a die into the graphic history of selling a fi lm, and manuscripts, which house a wide array of research materials by specifi c artists. f course, the area of greatest interest in the Production Art collection, which holds the more than 13,000 elements the from numerous sub-collections, one particularly important one being the Art Directors Guild collection, the source of many eshoots articles featured at the end of every issue. It can be entertaining to just click around and see what comes up, but for specifi c areas of inuiry, it is best to use the Advanced Search screen. Select Library Holdings is the Dataset dropdown menu; choose Only Records with Images (probably.) In Holdings Type, select Posters or Production Art, for a specifi c fi lm title, use S ilm Title. This adanced search will also return results from the photographic collection of the library, with information on the vast array of production stills, behind-the-scenes and promotional images from the history of fi lm. Working with the search results, there are a number of fi lters to the left of the search page that can refi ne what is shown. These fi lters can be epanded with the bottom arrow, and can extend well down the A