LibGuides: Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector: Finding Images

Images

Occasionally you may need to use images in your assignments. The Library has access to both moving image databases and still images databases.

Still Images: Online Resources

British Library Images Online | The Picture Library of the British Library
Collections of images suitable for use in Higher Education, including the Design Council Slide Collection, The Design Council Archive, Imperial War Museum Concise Art Collection, and the Women’s Library Suffrage Banner Collection.

VADS
VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) is an online resource for the visual arts.
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Moving Images: Online Resources

Teachers TV

Screen Online
Screen Online is an online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Archive, and several hours of recorded interviews with film and TV personalities.
Off-campus access is not possible for this database
News on Screen
A database of British cinema newsreels from 1910 to 1979. Contains 160,000 records from 21 newsreels and cinemagazines, 80,000 digitised newsreel production documents, and a wide range of information resources, including oral history recordings, film availability sources and online articles. 40,000 records link to free low-resolution downloadable copies from the British Pathe web site.
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