Alkek Library Hosts Scholarly Publishing Opportunities

As part of Open Access week Alkek Library is hosting Scholarly Publishing Opportunities, Thursday, October 24, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon in Rooms 105/106, on the first floor of the library.

Ryan Steans, Texas Digital Library (TDL) Director of Operations, and Kristi Park, TDL Program Coordinator, will provide information on services TDL can provide to scholars with respect to hosting online journals, conferences, and conference proceedings.

This event will provide anyone with an interest in Open Access publishing, author’s rights, as well as online journal and conference hosting, with an opportunity to ask questions and to join with fellow members of the Texas State community that share your interest.

See you there!

Getty Search Gateway with Open Content Images

The Getty Search Gateway is an excellent umbrella tool for searching the following Getty resources for paintings, photographs, drawings, sculpture, manuscripts, and much more:

• J. Paul Getty Museum Collection Database
• Getty Research Institute Research Library Catalog 
• Getty Research Institute Collections Inventories and Finding Aids 
• Getty Research Institute Digital Collections 

Read more about these resources here.

The Getty Search Gateway also includes high resolution open content images that you are free to download and use like this one below. From the home page you can go directly to an open content image search.

 
Pietro Paolini [Italian (Lucchese), 1603 - 1681], Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes, about 1625 - 1630, oil on canvas, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

Finding Images Workshop 9/5/13

Need to find quality images for your presentations or papers? Come to the Finding Images workshop to learn how use the library’s databases and books to find high quality images in all different subject areas including art, advertising, journalism, popular culture and more. Presentation tips and tech tools will be also be briefly covered.
The Finding Images workshop is , September 5, 2013,  in Alkek 101 from 3-4:20pm.

Last Days of Alkek Library Staff Art Show!!

Only 3 more days to come see the 2nd annual Alkek Library Staff Art Show in the 1st floor exhibit cases! Don't miss out on seeing staff photography, paintings, textiles, and more!

Spaces Directory from Fractured Atlas Adds Barter and Work Study Options

Fractured Atlas has added "barter" and "work study" filters to their Spaces Directory so you can search for spaces to work in that offer these alternatives to paying for space. See their original post, "Finding Creative Space for Barter - Easier Than Unicorn Hunting".

Finding Creative Space for Barter - Easier than Unicorn Hunting - See more at: http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/blog/2013/06/10/finding-creative-space-for-barter-easier-than-unicorn-hunting/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fracturedatlas+%28Fractured+Atlas+Blog%29#sthash.4p77HlSw.dpuf

Finding Creative Space for Barter - Easier than Unicorn Hunting - See more at: http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/blog/2013/06/10/finding-creative-space-for-barter-easier-than-unicorn-hunting/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fracturedatlas+%28Fractured+Atlas+Blog%29#sthash.4p77HlSw.dpuf

Finding Images Workshop Today!

Need to find quality images for your presentations or papers? Come to the Finding Images workshop to learn how use the library’s databases and books to find high quality images in all different subject areas including art, advertising, journalism, popular culture and more. Presentation tips and tech tools will be also be briefly covered.
The Finding Images workshop is today, June 6, 2013,  in Alkek 101 from 3-4:30pm.

ARTstor Travel Awards

ARTstor is offering five $1500 travel awards for undergraduate and graduate students, curators, educators, and librarians in any field to help fund travel-related educational and scholarly activities.

This year the theme is cities. Rules include, "create an ARTstor image group or groups and a single essay of 500 words or less about cities." Application, rules, and more information here. The deadline is Tuesday, May 28th.

You could use this money to go to a conference in some other part of the world for professional development, networking or any other educational or scholarly related travel. Whoo hoo! 

Veronique Hahn Exhibit at Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos

The public is invited to an artist’s reception for “Pilar” a new exhibit at Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos by local artist, Veronique Hahn, whose exhibit celebrates Spanish Culture, Sunday, April 21, 2-4 p.m. 

Along with the artwork, guests will be entertained by Carlos Cedillo playing Spanish guitar and, starting at 3:30, a dramatic reading (in Spanish) by Texas State University student members of Club del Teatro Leído of Federico Garcia Lorca’s classic play, “Yerma.” 

 
 

Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos is located at 211 Lee Street. “Pilar” will be on display through mid July, 20, and open to the public during regular Centro hours.

The Alkek Library has Veronique Hahn's publications available for checkout in the Juvenile Collection on the 6th floor of the library.

Interesting Image and More Sites

Here are a couple of interesting image sites I have recently discovered. They include public domain and creative commons images. Be sure and read their terms of use for each site, give credits and enjoy!

Europeana: Think Culture

Description from their About Us page:

• "Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage. Ideas and inspiration can be found within the millions of items on Europeana. These objects include:
  
• Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
• Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
• Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
• Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts"

The Public Domain Review

From their Collections page:

• "Collections of films, audio, images and texts which are no longer protected by copyright. Trawling through the Internet Archive, Wikimedia Commons and other such sites, we bring you a continuously growing and curated slice of what the public domain has to offer. Most material featured is in the public domain worldwide but the rights status of some works (particular films) may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so do check before reusing."

 The Cheetah (1886) from The Bestiarium of Aloys Zötl (1831-1887) from The Public Domain Review

Your Paintings

From their About Us page:

• Your Paintings is a website which aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings, the stories behind the paintings, and where to see them for real. It is made up of paintings from thousands of museums and other public institutions around the country. Your Paintings is a joint initiative between the BBC, the Public Catalogue Foundation (a registered charity) and participating collections and museums from across the UK. You can create your own collection of paintings and add tags.

Finding Images Workshop 1/31, 2:30-4pm

Hello and welcome back! I will be offering a Finding Images workshop this Thursday, 1/31/13 from 2:30-4pm in Alkek 101. For the description and a link to reserve your seat for this free workshop see the library's Workshops page. Thanks!