New space available for groups to meet and engage with library materials

This new space was recently created in the lower level of the Duderstadt Center near the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Special Collections room. Over the past several years, interest in special collections materials like artists' books has increased the number of classes visiting the collections. The new space offers a quiet, bright and flexible environment for special materials instruction and viewing. In addition, the space will be equipped with an 80" flat screen monitor allowing for demonstrations of databases and other digital content. When not in use for classroom visits, the room will be open for group study. The room will soon be entered into the Duderstdt Center Room Scheduling Online Reservation System at http://www.dc.umich.edu/scheduling/scheduling.htm so that other groups can book the space for meetings or events. If you have any questions about this space, please contact Annette Haines, the Art & Design Field Librarian at ahaines@umich.edu.

Copyright workshops and information

Two copyright workshops are being offered next month for faculty and graduate students. I would encourage everyone to attend one these courses to help you understand your rights and responsibilities regarding copyright:

Copyright Basics
Monday, 6/3, 3:00 pm-4:30 pm

https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/copyright-basics-4/

Copyright and Your Dissertation
Thursday, 6/27, 10:00 am-11:30 am

https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/copyright-and-your-dissertation-3/

If you are unable to attend one of these workshops, here are two useful online resources that offer clear guidelines:

Copyright Basics

http://guides.lib.umich.edu/copyrightbasics

©Guide | What Can I Put in CTools? Ten Copyright Considerations

http://www.lib.umich.edu/files/departments/Guide%20-%20CTools%202012-10-4.pdf

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

Upcoming CTools workshops

There are several CTools sessions scheduled in the next few weeks to help you get ready for winter term.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/upcoming/tag/ctools/

The Faculty Exploratory will be open through December 20th to help you get ready, but will be closed Dec. 21 - Jan 7th.

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

Strategies and Techniques for Effectively Using Video in Teaching

Monday, 10/1, 6:00 pm-7:30 pm

There are a multitude of possibilities for bringing video into today’s classroom to support student learning, but how can it best be done in a way that encourages learning and involvement? In this session we will explore the realities of what can be done with current technology as well as some ideas for what might be possible with new technologies on the horizon. We will explore three aspects of classroom use: making video available to students 24/7; effective use of video for classroom presentations; and ways to support students with creating video based assignments.

Register at:

http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/strategies-and-techniques-for-effectively-using-video-in-teaching/

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

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.