In 1954 Millard Sheets was appointed Director of Otis College. Under his leadership, the school's academic program was restructured so that BFA and MFA degrees were offered.
The Otis College Library was re-named in his honor in 1997.
A NEXUS FOR INFORMATION AND IMAGINATION.
Goals of the Library:
Information Literacy ILO:
Main Stacks - We have a circulating collection of nearly 40,000 books shelved by call number (we use the Library of Congress classification system). There are also 332,000 e-books available online through the Catalog.
Databases - Discover and access millions of articles, eBooks, and more through our subscriptions.
Special Collections - Viewable by appointment only, these are housed in a closed space and must be requested in advance. Our collections include artists' books, zines, rare books, and institutional archives.
Media Collection - There are physical, circulating DVDs in our Stacks, as well as streaming video available online through our databases.
Materials Collection - These items circulate and are located near the Circulation Desk.
Print Periodicals - We subscribe to 90+ print journals and magazines, and we also maintain bound periodicals going all the way back to the 1940s. Our most current issues are available to browse in the center of the library. Check out our Magazine Holding List. Older issues and bound periodicals are held elsewhere on campus and may be viewed upon request.
Image Collections - These include the OtisDID (Digital Image Database), an art history image bank to support teaching, and Otis Collections Online, a web database of digital images by, for, and about the Otis Community, which includes the digitized materials from the Otis Archives and Artists' Books Collections.
Games and Puzzles
Otis College's Special Collections include:
These items can be viewed by appointment between 10 am - 5 pm, Monday through Friday. Most items are only available to view within the library under supervision, and some items are too fragile to be scanned/xeroxed.
To book an appointment or request more information, please contact our Reference and Special Collections Librarian, Morgan Yanni (myanni@otis.edu).
Library Support Services (formerly the Visual Resources Center, or VRC) is where you can find still and moving images to support the curriculum at Otis College of Art and Design. We manage the OtisDID (the digital image database), Otis Collections Online, iPads, and Video section. We are located in the Millard Sheets Library on the first floor of the Residence Hall.
Staff:
Heather Cleary, Director of Library Services
Derek McMullen, Photographic Imaging Technician
Visit our research guide: Finding Images and Videos
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