Mining the Internet for images to use in teaching and learning can be daunting and frustrating. One of many efforts to streamline this process is a wiki created by Hollin Elizabeth Pagos for the Visual Resources department of Wellesley College. The Digital Images Collections Wiki is a "resource of Free- and Fair-Use digital image collections that are available for anyone to use for personal or educational purposes." It consists of a directory of links to web sites containing images, organized primarily by period and geographic region. The image quality and size vary by source. Projects such as this are increasingly common, and search results will improve over time as technology provides new tools. Professional organizations, such as the Visual Resources Association and the Society of Architectural Historians, are working toward shared image resources for academic use. The VRC maintains a page of image resources for teaching and research, with links to directories, guides, search engines, selected digital image collections. Suggestions for links are welcome!Image: Pellegrino di Mariano Rossini, Death of the Pharaoh, ca. 1450, © Kathleen Cohen, worldart.sjsu.edu.
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