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Thursday, March 1, 2012

ArtStor News March 2012


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ARTstor Welcomes New Subscribing Institutions
As of March 1, there were 1,414 institutions participating in ARTstor. During February, ARTstor welcomed University of Kansas, Umeå University (Sweden), University of Evansville (IN), Lake Highland Preparatory School (FL), Jackson Hole High School (WY), Musea Brugge (Belgium), and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (TX).

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Meet ARTstor staff at upcoming conferences
ARTstor President James Shulman, Library Relations Associate Siân Evans, and other ARTstor staff will attend the 40th annual Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Conference in Toronto, March 29-April 2, 2012. Senior Implementation Manager Elizabeth Darocha Berenz will be moderating "Metadata: the changing information landscape"; Elizabeth and Implementation Manager Rebecca Shows will be holding a Shared Shelf User Group; and Ian McDermott, Collection Development Associate, will hold an ARTstor Digital Library User Group.
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Eugène Delacroix | Liberty Leading the People, 1830 | Musée du Louvre | Image and original data provided by Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives/ART RESOURCE, N.Y. http://www.artres.com

Teaching with ARTstor: Grammar in art
Ever wonder why Liberty is personified as female and Time as male? Guest blogger Lera Boroditsky, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, has a theory, and she tested it by using the ARTstor Digital Library.
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Now available: Wriston Art Center Galleries (Lawrence University)
ARTstor and the Wriston Art Center at Lawrence University are now sharing more than 1,200 images of artworks in the Digital Library. The collection in ARTstor consists of selections from special collections of early 20th century German art, Japanese prints, and Ancient and Byzantine coins.
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Now available: Nearly 10,000 additional images from Contemporary Art (Larry Qualls Archive)
Nearly 10,000 additional images from Larry Qualls' archive of contemporary art are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library. This release includes hundreds of contemporary artists such as: Ghada Amer, assume vivid astro focus, Carol Bove, Dan Colen, Tim Hawkinson, Candice Hoeflinger, Zhang Huan, Ari Marcopoulos, Gordon Matta-Clark, Aleksandra Mir, Dana Schutz, Richard Serra, Amy Sillman, Andreas Slominski, Josh Smith, Dash Snow, Rudolf Stingel, Sarah Sze, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Charline von Heyl, and Kehinde Wiley.
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Preview the ARTstor Digital Library
ARTstor Library Relations is now offering online demonstrations for librarians and faculty at nonprofit institutions interested in learning more about the content, features, and tools of the Digital Library. These demonstrations will cover many aspects of the Digital Library, including collection highlights from over one million interdisciplinary images and teaching ideas. All that is required to view these online demonstrations is a computer with Internet access and audio.

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ARTstor is a nonprofit organization that makes available a Digital Library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with a set of tools to use images for teaching and learning.
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Currently over 1,400 institutions from the higher education, museum, K-12, and public library communities participate in ARTstor. We invite nonprofit institutions to license ARTstor for research and teaching needs.
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Image Credits
a) Eugène Delacroix | Liberty Leading the People, 1830 | Musée du Louvre | Image and original data provided by Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives/ART RESOURCE, N.Y. http://www.artres.com; b) Greek | Silver Tetradrachm of Athens, Greece; Reverse: Owl; olive leaves with berry; crescent moon, c. 450-440 BCE | Wriston Art Center Galleries (Lawrence University); c) Ghada Amer | Coulures Colores , 2000 | Exhibited at Deitch Projects, Spring 2000 | Image and original data provided by Larry Qualls | © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.

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