Posted in Events, Organization, Shared Shelf, tagged SUNY CIT on May 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The Conference on Instruction and Technology (SUNY CIT) Conference
May 21-24, 2013
SUNY Institute of Technology, GPS – 5701 Horatio St., Utica, NY
Drop by our booth and meet Rebecca Shows, Implementation Manager, and Sian Evans, Sr. Library Relations, to learn about Shared Shelf, ARTstor’s media management software.
More details at the SUNY CIT Conference website.
Posted in Organization, Travel Awards, tagged artstor travel awards, travel awards on April 17, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Antoni Gaudí | La Pedrera (Mila House) | 1906-1910 | Image and original data provided by Shmuel Magal, Sites and Photos; sites-and-photos.com
The ARTstor Travel Awards are back and they are now open to undergraduate students! This year the theme is cities: their histories and development, their depictions in art and documentation, their architecture, their ruins, their governments, their peoples, their myths.
Create an ARTstor image group or groups and a single essay of 500 words or less that creatively introduces us to a city or cities we did not know or reveals an intriguing aspect of the cities we do know. Five winners— college and graduate students, scholars, curators, educators, and librarians in any field—will receive $1,500 each to help support travel-related educational and scholarly activities. Winning essays and other selected submissions will be published on the ARTstor Blog, ARTstor website, and via our social media channels. Deadline extended to Tuesday, May 28.
Posted in Events, Organization, Shared Shelf, tagged ARLIS, ARLIS-NA on April 17, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS-NA) Annual Conference
April 25-29, 2013
Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, California
We have some great ARTstor and Shared Shelf events planned for the ARLIS-NA Conference:
Thursday, April 25, 5 – 7 PM
Join us for a Shared Shelf Happy Hour at El Cholo Café at the Paseo Colorado Mall, around the block from the main entrance to the conference hotel, 260 East Colorado Blvd, second floor.
Saturday, April 27, 12:15 – 1:15 PM
Join ARTstor president James Shulman and ARTstor/Shared Shelf staff for lunch at Ballroom A, where we will provide updates on various ARTstor services including the Digital Library, Shared Shelf, and free services such as Images for Academic Publishing, Shared Shelf Commons, and the Built Works Registry.
Saturday, April 27, 1:30 – 3:00 PM
Ian McDermott, ARTstor Collection Development Associate will present “Not Not a Librarian” at the Alt-ARLIS: How Non-Traditional Paths Can Serve Your Career and the Society panel discussion.
Sunday, April 28, 9:15 – 10:45 AM
Caroline Caviness, Shared Shelf Senior Implementation Manager, is moderating Doing Data Together: Engaging End-Users in Building Richer Resources, More Efficiently.
Posted in Organization on March 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Yupik Eskimo | Mask: The Bad Spirit of the Mountain | late 19th century | Dallas Museum of Art
ARTstor is partnering with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to provide access to more than 10,000 high-quality images from six leading museums.
As part of its collaboration with ARTstor, the DPLA will aggregate and make available data records and links to images from six major American museums: the Dallas Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art (paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection), the Walters Art Museum, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. In addition to linking to the original contributing museum’s own website, each DPLA record will link to the image in Open ARTstor, a new ARTstor initiative that allows users to view and download large versions of public domain images.
The DPLA is a large-scale, collaborative project across government, research institutions, museums, libraries, and archives to build a digital library platform to make America’s cultural and scientific history free and publicly available anytime, anywhere, online through a single access point. As part of its two-year Digital Hubs Pilot Project, the DPLA is working with several large digital content providers—including the National Archives and the Smithsonian Institution—and seven state and regional digital libraries to make digitized content from their online catalogs easily accessible to all. The DPLA will celebrate the groundbreaking work of hundreds of librarians, innovators, and other dedicated volunteers in its collective effort to build the first national digital library platform on April 18 at the Boston Public Library. (more…)
Posted in Events, K-12, Organization, tagged Advanced Placement, AP, FATE 2013, Foundations in Art: Theory and Education on March 27, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE)
April 4 – April 6, 2013
Hyatt Regency Savannah, Savannah, GA
Dana Howard, Senior K-12 Relationship Manager, will be presenting at the FATE 2013 Conference in Savannah as part of a panel discussion called “Building Bridges: AP Art History and the Studio Art Student.”
Posted in Events, Organization, Shared Shelf, tagged ARLIS, ARLIS-NA on March 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS-NA) Annual Conference
April 25-29, 2013
Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, California
ARTstor and Shared Shelf staff will be at the ARLIS-NA Conference.
We are celebrating our 10th year as an independent nonprofit devoted to using technology to support teaching, learning, and research. Join us for lunch on Saturday April 27 12:15 – 1:15PM, at Ballroom A, where we will provide updates on various ARTstor services including the Digital Library, Shared Shelf, and free services such as Images for Academic Publishing, Shared Shelf Commons, and the Built Works Registry.
Posted in Events, Organization, Shared Shelf, tagged ACRL, Association of College and Research Libraries on March 21, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Annual Conference
April 10-13, 2013
Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, Indiana
ACRL annual conference attendees are invited to join ARTstor President James Shulman on April 11 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art for a presentation about Shared Shelf‘s growth from a community-driven initiative to a versatile media management platform. Colleagues will demonstrate how Shared Shelf’s features for cataloging and managing their institution’s media and data have brought diverse digital collections to life for faculty, students, and even other institutions. Newly-introduced features and upcoming developments will also be explored.
Posted in Events, Organization, Shared Shelf, tagged Visual Resources Association, VRA on March 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Visual Resources Association (VRA) Annual Conference
April 3-6, 2013
Providence Biltmore Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island
ARTstor and Shared Shelf representatives will be at the VRA annual conference. We invite you to take part in our events:
Posted in Organization, Travel Awards, tagged artstor travel awards, travel awards on March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
El Greco | View and Map of Toledo | c. 1610 | Casa y Museo del Greco | Image and original data provided by Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives/ART RESOURCE, N.Y.; artres.com | Photo Credit: Erich Lessing/ART RESOURCE, N.Y.
The fourth annual ARTstor Travel Awards are coming soon, and for the first time the contest will be open to undergraduates!
Five winners— college and graduate students, scholars, curators, educators, and librarians in any field—will receive $1,500 each to help support travel-related educational and scholarly activities. Winning essays and other selected submissions will be featured in ARTstor and on the ARTstor Blog.
This year the theme is cities: their histories and development, their depictions in art and documentation, their architecture, their ruins, their governments, their peoples, their myths. To enter, create an ARTstor image group or groups and a single essay of 500 words or less that creatively introduces us to a city or cities we did not know or reveals an intriguing aspect of the cities we do know.
Deadlines and details on how to submit will be announced in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
Posted in Features & Functionality, K-12, Organization, Tips & Tools on February 26, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Pantheon; Interior view #1 | 118-126 CE | QTVR Panoramas of World Architecture (Columbia University) | Visual Media Center; learn.columbia.edu
By Dana Howard
True confession: I was a sporadic—and inattentive—user of the ARTstor Digital Library. My high school was a fairly early adopter of ARTstor. I used it a lot on those early years, but as I had more and more of my slides “in the can,” I stopped paying attention to the changes taking place in the Digital Library.
I would periodically run to ARTstor when I was asked to do presentations at the last minute, (I found the ability to do a quick download of Image Groups to PowerPoint very helpful), but for the most part I was too busy to explore new tools and new collections as they were announced. I think I was typical for a high school user; I was busy teaching and felt constantly bombarded with new resources elsewhere.
