Using the proxy bookmarklet to access library materials from off campus

Have you ever been browsing the web and come across and article, but because you are off campus you are unable to access the full text? The proxy bookmarklet lets you reload a web page through the U-M Library's proxy server. If the page you are visiting is one that the library has a subscription for, then you should get immediate access to the resource once you've logged in with your uniqname and Kerberos password and have been verified to have a valid library account.

See this link for a quick video tutorial on how to set up the proxy bookmarklet:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/mlibrary-labs/proxy-server-bookmarklet

ARTstor now includes even more contemporary art images

ARTstor, the digital library of more than one million images, has signed an Online Art Agreement (OLA) with Artists Rights Society (ARS) on behalf of six additional international visual arts organizations covering more than 10,000 new artists from six countries. This substantially expands the ARTstor Digital Library’s modern and contemporary artworks for subscribers.

The artists covered in the agreement include: Waino Aaltonen (Finland), Raul Anguiano (Mexico), Oscar Araripe (Brazil), Charles Blackman (Australia), Paul-Emile Borduas (Canada), Arthur Boyd (Australia), Jack Bush (Canada), Fernando and Umberto Campana (Brazil), José Chávez Morado (Mexico), Grace Cossington-Smith (Australia), Adam Cullen (Australia), Wilhelm Dachauer (Austria), Ken Done (Australia), Destiny Deacon (Australia), Max Dupain (Australia), Felipe Ehrenburg (Mexico), Valie Export (Austria), Rosalie Gascoigne (Australia), James Gleeson (Australia), Jorge González Camarena (Mexico), Oswaldo Goeldi  (Brazil), Friedensreich Hundertwasser (Austria), Eero Jarnefelt (Finland), Angelika Kaufmann (Austria), Manfred Kielnhofer (Austria), Awad Krayem (Austria), Emily Kngwarreye (Australia), Ozias Leduc (Canada), Elwyn Lynn (Australia), Adolfo Mexiac  (Mexico), Benito Messeguer (Mexico), Tracey Moffatt (Australia), Rodolfo Morales (Mexico), Hermann Nitsch (Austria), John Olsen (Australia), Jose Clemente Orozco (Mexico), Mike Parr (Australia), Jean-Paul Riopelle  (Canada), Georg Paul Thomann (Austria), Francisco Toledo (Mexico), Brett Whiteley (Australia), Fred Williams (Australia), Peter Paul Wiplinger (Austria), and Erwin Wurm (Austria), among thousands more.
For further information about the agreement see the ARTstor Blog at:

http://artstor.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/new-agreement-with-international-affiliates-of-the-artists-rights-society-ars/

MLibrary Open House for Graduate Students and Faculty

It's YOUR Library. Come learn about it!

MLibrary invites faculty and graduate students to the Library Open House, on Monday September 10, 2012 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., on the second floor of the Graduate Library in the Clark Library. Meet many different subject librarians, learn about our amazing collections, and find out about how we can help you with your teaching and research needs.

Refreshments available as well as a raffle. See you on September 10th!

Using Google Calendar to Schedule Office Hours

Did you know you can use Google Calendar to set up appointment slots? I recently did this to set up individual meetings with the first year Graduate Students. Basically all it involves is blocking out a time on your calendar and sending your students an email with a URL so they can sign up. The complete instructions are here:

http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=190998

See me and I can help you do this.

Annette Haines
UM Art & Design Field Librarian
ahaines@umich.edu

Ctools meets Google

There are lots of new features integrating Ctools with various Google products. You can read more about them in this article from the Record:

New version of CTools integrates with Google, Box and more

Please contact me if you have questions about these new tools or would like some one-on-one assistance with setting up your Ctools site. 

Annette Haines

Art & Design Field Librarian

ahaines@umich.edu

AAEL acquires WSW archive of artists' books

The University of Michigan Art, Architecture and Engineering Library recently acquired the complete collection of books published by the Women's Studio Workshop. The Women’s Studio Workshop operates and maintains an artists’ workspace that encourages the voice and vision of individual women artists, provides professional opportunities and employment to artists at all stages of their careers, and promotes programs designed to stimulate public involvement, awareness and support for the visual arts.

Here is a link to WSW searchable digital archive:
http://www.wsworkshop.org/archive_search.php

The UM archive of these books is housed in AAE Library Special Collections. Please contact me if you would like to make an appointment for you or your class to see them.

Annette Haines
Art & Design Field Librarian
ahaines@umich.edu

Imageworks Newly Acquired Videos

Linked here are the new art and design videos that were acquired for the Imagworks Library.

2011

2012

For a complete list of videos in Imageworks see the The Imageworks Online Database of Visual Media


If you have suggestions for Library purchases, please contact me:

Annette Haines
Art & Design Field Librarian
ahaines@umich.edu

Short Youtube videos to get you started using the Library

Here are a few short Youtube videos that will get you started using the Library

Get This: MLibrary Books Delivered to You

Finding Full-Text with MGet It

ProQuest: More Subjects and Articles Than Ever!

Searching for Articles? Try ArticlesPlus!

How to Access Library Resources from Off Campus

Google Scholar with MGet It Links

Introduction to Mirlyn

Finding Library Databases

AP Images

**Click here for a complete list of videos**

Cameras and other equipment you can check out at the Library

On the second floor of Art, Architecture and Engineering Library in the Duderstadt Center we now have the following items that can be checked out with your UM ID card.

• Still camera kits 
• Video camera kits 
• Lighting kits 

These items have a three-day loan period with no renewals.

Groundworks provides the Library with a list of classes that require these items. If a student is not on the class list, he/she needs to speak with their professor to be added to that list. If there is no class list at all, students can have their professor submit a list with names. The lists can come to the AAE Library directly or be sent to Groundworks.

For further information contact the AAE Library Circulation Desk at aael.circ@umich.edu or phone 734-647-5747.

New Materials Collection in Imageworks: Come see and touch STUFF!

In March, the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library at the University of Michigan held an open house to announce their collection of materials leased from Material ConneXion. The collection is housed in Imageworks, our visual resources library and consists of samples of 200 materials, a selected subset of the over 6,500 materials found in the Materials ConneXion® database to which we had previously subscribed. We envision the collection being most heavily used by the School of Art & Design, and the Architecture and Materials Engineering departments, but the collection is available for in-house use to anyone.

In preparation for this new collection, special mobile shelving units were created by the UM Cabinet Shop to display the materials. Susan Garret, our Visual Resources Cataloguer and Coordinator, and her staff created a database of the 200 samples which cross-references the Material ConneXion database. For further information, please visit our Materials Collection Guide at http://guides.lib.umich.edu/materials_collection.

Faculty Exploratory - Workshops and one-on-one help with technology

A program as well as a facility, the Faculty Exploratory was designed specifically for faculty at the University of Michigan to enhance lecturing, research, and publishing skills. Whether you already use technology and just need a few tips or are just starting out and need a whole new skill set, you can take hands-on workshops, setup an appointment, or just stop in and say, HELP! In addition to getting assistance with software applications, we can help you digitize video, audio, photographs and slides for your classes and presentations on our multimedia workstations.

New full text and video databases

The University Library has purchased several video and text databases from Alexander Street Press.  These titles are available for immediate use on the Ann Arbor, Flint and Dearborn campuses.  Videos can be temporarily downloaded to mobile devices for later viewing.

VIDEO 

Art & Architecture Online : documentaries and interviews on the theory and practice of art, design and architecture

New World Cinema: Major Independent Features and Shorts, 1990-Present : coming soon!  Contemporary independent films.  Will appear with other video collections here in Academic Video Online

The March of Time : Time newsreels and docudramas, 1937-1967

Theatre in Video: Supplement : performances of plays and documentaries on theater

TEXT COLLECTIONS

Black Drama: Second Edition  : nearly 1500 plays from authors from North America, Africa and the Caribbean

Women and Social Movements International: 1840 to Present : primary documents from women activists in social movements world-wide