ARTstor training on Youtube

For those of you who may not have discovered it yet, ARTstor is a vast database of high quality digital images from hundreds of world class museums and institutions. University of Michigan users should link to ARTstor through any MLibrary website or directly via this link: http://www.lib.umich.edu/database/link/9539 

ARTstor has some very useful Youtube videos showing different aspects of the database such as registering, using folders and image groups, and exporting to PowerPoint. Check them out on the ARTstor Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/artstor.

ARTstor video demos and online training

ARTstor is a vast database of digital images from hundreds of world class museums and institutions. Faculty can use these images and collaborate with others to enhance lectures and help students learn about art and design. ARTstor's excellent help resource (http://help.artstor.org) includes video demos to help you learn to take advantage of its functionality. Demos include:

• Export to PowerPoint walks you through the process of exporting your ARTstor image groups into a single PowerPoint presentation. Step-by-step PDF guides are also available.
• Folders and image groups explores user options for organizing images within the ARTstor Digital Library. Step-by-step PDF guides are also available. 
• How to unlock a password protected folder guides users through the process of finding and unlocking a shared folder. Step-by-step PDF guides are also available.
• Faceted search describes how to use the faceted search panel to narrow your results when searching within the ARTstor Digital Library. Step-by-step PDF guides
•  Registering walks users through the process of registering for an ARTstor user account.

ARTstor also offers webinars on the basics (viewing, printing and downloading images) and advanced topics (using folders and creating personal collections). You can sign up for these seminars here: http://help.artstor.org/wiki/index.php/Online_training_schedule

MLibrary Image Collections

MLibrary staff are so pleased to announce the refresh of our MLibrary Image Collections interface.MLibrary Image Collections interface provides connections to databases of digitized images of artworks, cultural and historical artifacts, etc., from museums and other sources maintained by the Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) at the University of Michigan Library. You can also search across all the image databases with the Image Collections search engine. Our impetus in modifying this interface was to greatly enhance the discoverability and use of these collections by any user. If you have questions about this new interface, please contact dlps-help@umich.edu.

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Stock photos available from Thinkstock

Thinkstock Photos is a product that provides all sorts of royalty-free stock photos, illustrations, and notably, vector graphic possibilities. University of Michigan affiliates are permitted up to 25 downloads per day (750/month). Thinkstock can be used for searches as specific as Detroit, Ann Arbor, or brick wall; but it’s also useful for more generic or concept-based searches, like confusion, smile, or skyline. 
Access Thinkstock at this link: https://www.lib.umich.edu/pk/resource.php?011386960

UM Department of the History of Art presents a new website for their Visual Resources Collections

As part of a larger effort to make more of our collections available to the U-M as well as the global community, the new site features more images from our collections, articles about the collections and the people connected to them, news items specific to the VRC, events listings, streamlined navigation, and more.

The combined efforts of History of Art/VRC staff and the LSA web services team have created a website to match the needs of the VRC community as we move forward into the digital age.

 

Please join us at  www.lsa.umich.edu/histartvrc and explore the site.

 

Sincerely,

Matt Biro, Chair, History of Art

Kim Schroeder, Head, Visual Resources Collections

 

 

 

Stephanie Harrell

Communications Specialist

University of Michigan

Department of the History of Art & Institute for the Humanities

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/

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

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Finding Full-Text with MGet It

ProQuest: More Subjects and Articles Than Ever!

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How to Access Library Resources from Off Campus

Google Scholar with MGet It Links

Introduction to Mirlyn

Finding Library Databases

AP Images

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