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Chicago Visual Library: Original Contributions to Scholarship

The Chicago Visual Library (CVL), a publishing program of the University of Chicago Press, is designed primarily for the reproduction of visual materials for reference and study. With few exceptions, volumes in the Chicago Visual Library present material not available in any other format. These publications, called "text-fiches" because they combine a printed text with color pictorial microfiches, are original contributions to scholarship, especially in the fields of art history and anthropology. Because of the high cost of color printing, color illustrations had almost disappeared from specialized books by the early 1970s. In 1972-1973, the University of Chicago Press experimented with reprinting illustrated books on microfiche. After some testing, however, Chicago rejected that approach because librarians are reluctant to buy materials already available in another format. Moreover, technical problems are created by mixing illustrations with text on film. One cannot read the commentary and at the same time look at the pictures elsewhere on the microfiche; the printer must build up contrast in the image to make the type legible; and prolonged reading of microfiches causes eye-fatigue. Chicago did not give up the idea of microfiche, however. In 1975, the Press devised a new micropublishing format—based on the book, but adapted for greater pictorial content. Illustrations that would usually appear in printed plates, either in color or black and white, are converted to microfiche and placed in a pocket inside the book. A conventional paperbound text carries a scholarly introduction to the pictorial material, as well as fully annotated catalog entries. A bibliography is usually included. Each microfiche carries as many as 84 images, and several microfiches may be required for a single publication. For example, one text-fiche contains 588 color illustrations on seven microfiches. With this new text-fiche format, Chicago has collaborated with major American and European museums in an effort to publish comprehensive