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Valpo Acquires ArtStor Digital Library

Church of the Katholikon

Title: Hosios Loukas Monastery: Church of the Katholikon, interior, view towards E. showing dome and apse with mosaics, ca. 1021 Collection: Art History Survey Collection. Location Phocis, Greece Trachtenberg: col. pl. 19, 267 [alt.] Source Catalogued by: Art Images for College Teaching. Allan Kohl, photographer

This image titled “Hosios Loukas Monastery: Church of the Katholikon” is among the works that can be accessed through ArtStor.

Valparaiso University has acquired a tool that will aid significantly in research and teaching efforts on campus.
With ArtStor, a digital library of some 550,000 images, faculty members throughout campus can access images, prepare presentations from their desktops, and post the presentations online for students to view.

“From the strategic standpoint of the university’s mission, ArtStor offers a level of scholastic prestige that prospective faculty members will recognize as another example of Valpo’s commitment to offer a first-rate education, and as a research tool for their own scholarly endeavors,” says Bob Sirko, chair of VU’s department of art.

“Many university colleagues have come to rely on the Internet as a source of imagery and would prefer it to a slide library,” Sirko says. “The image quality is first-rate, and a great deal of time is saved by having so many images in one place.”

The digital library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, classical studies, literary studies, medieval studies, music, religious studies and renaissance studies.

Valparaiso University, Institutional Advancement, Office of Communications