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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

ArtStor News May 2012

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ARTstor Welcomes New Subscribing Institutions
As of May 1, there were 1,429 institutions participating in the ARTstor Digital Library. During April, ARTstor welcomed The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; University of Hong Kong; Henderson State University (AR); University of Great Falls (MT); The Arts University College at Bournemouth (United Kingdom); University of Arkansas-Fort Smith; American International School – Chennai (India); and Lincoln Elementary School for the Arts (MN).

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Online introduction to ARTstor - only 6 sessions remain in our spring series!
ARTstor Library Relations offers online demonstrations for librarians and faculty at nonprofit institutions interested in learning more about the content, features, and tools of the Digital Library. These popular demonstrations 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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Francesco Pesellino | King Melchior Sailing to the Holy Land, ca. 1445-1450 | Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute | Image and data was provided by Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

ARTstor's History and Mission
Ever wonder how ARTstor came to be? Watch Chairman Neil Rudenstine and President James Shulman discuss our history and mission in this short video.

Polynesian | Easter Island (Rapa Nui); view of unfinished moai statues on slopes of Rano Raraku volcano | 10th-12th cent. | Image and original data provided by Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives/ART RESOURCE, N.Y. artres.com / artres.com

May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month
This May, explore the history, religion, architecture, and art from the Pacific islands. From Cook's Voyages to the South Seas (Natural History Museum, London) to the Native American Art and Culture collection (National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution), the ARTstor Digital Library boasts many resources illuminating the cultures of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
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Celebrate Mother's Day with ARTstor
Happy Mother's Day! The holiday is celebrated in May in dozens of countries around the world. In honor of mothers everywhere, we have assembled some favorite mother and child images from the ARTstor Digital Library spanning a wide variety of cultures and eras.
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On this day
Check out the ARTstor Blog On this day category for brief illustrated posts about notable events. Previous posts include Armistice Day, The Gettsyburg Address, Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, Pi Day (3/14), The Ides of March, the start of the American Civil War, Friday the 13th, and the founding of Rome.

Now available: Photographs of the Hagia Sophia by A. Cemal Ekin
ARTstor and A. Cemal Ekin are sharing nearly 50 images of the dome of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey in the ARTstor Digital Library
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Now available: More than 5,000 new images from SAHARA
More than 16,000 images of architecture, landscape design, and the built environment from the Society of Architectural Historians' SAHARA project are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library.
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Image Credits
a) Polynesian | Easter Island (Rapa Nui); view of unfinished moai statues on slopes of Rano Raraku volcano | 10th-12th cent. | Image and original data provided by Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives/ART RESOURCE, N.Y. artres.com / artres.com; b) Mary Cassatt | Peasant Mother and Child | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Image and data from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; c) She-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus, 16th century | Musée du Louvre | Image and original data provided by Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives/ART RESOURCE, N.Y. artres.com / artres.com; d) A. Cemal Ekin | Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey | © A. Cemal Ekin, keptlight.com; e) Marina City | Bertrand Goldberg, Bertrand Goldberg Associates | Photographer George Everard Kidder Smith | © Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rotch Visual Collections | Society of Architectural Historians: SAHARA Collection.

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