Happy new year and welcome back! Lots to catch you up on!
ARTstor has a few new nifty tips and tools. They now have ARTstor mobile accessible from iPhones, iPads, or the iPod Touch. Features of the mobile version include searching images by keyword and viewing in list form with options of tapping to enlarge or rotate, or open info about the image. You can also view saved image groups but the coolest addition is the flashcard view which will let you see the image and then flip if over to see the info about it. You can use this like a flashcard to study for exams! See more about about ARTstor Mobile.
Another feature useful for exam prepping, is printing entire saved image groups. ARTstor will print saved image groups in list form with large thumbnails and the associated info for each image, making it easy to use as a study handout. You can also save this printable handout as a web page by saving as an HTML file from your browser. See it on ARTstor's news.
To see how to create an ARTstor account, save image groups, and do many other useful things as a Texas State student, faculty, or staff, see my other ARTstor posts on Art & Design Inforama or view my tutorial Creating URls and Power Points from ARTstor Image Groups.
If you would like me to give an ARTstor workshop, please email me, Tara, or leave a comment here. I am trying to gauge interest.
More new posts to come!
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Thursday, February 11, 2010
New ARTstor tutorial!
Hello. I have made a new ARTstor tutorial called Creating URls and Power Points from ARTstor Image Groups. Below is the video embedded from YouTube. There is also a larger Flash version on the Alkek Library website.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Happy New Year!
Welcome back everyone. I wanted to share a couple of award opportunities with you:
The Amon Carter Museum seeks applications for the 2010 Davidson Family Fellowship. Established in 1997, the fellowship provides support for scholars working toward the Ph.D. or at the postdoctoral level to research topics in the history of American art and culture that relate to objects in the museum's permanent collections. The museum collections cover the period between 1835 to 1950 in painting, sculpture, drawings and prints, photography from its beginnings to the present, and rare books. Proposals from qualified individuals in related disciplines are also welcome.
The deadline for receipt of applications is March 15, 2010. The stipend is $5,000 for a minimum four-week period of full-time research conducted at the museum before September 30, 2010.
More information, including the application form, is available at:
http://www.cartermuseum.org/library/davidson-family-fellowship
And another award from ARTstor:
We would like to share information about a new ARTstor travel award program with you and your colleagues.
The ARTstor Travel Awards program will provide five research travel awards in the amount of $1,500 each to support educational and scholarly activities. While the digital age is opening up new approaches and techniques for using images of the world's cultural heritage as evidence in teaching and scholarship, there is no substitute for engagement with original works and sites, for research in archives that hold primary source material, or for attending conferences with colleagues engaged with similar issues. In recognition of this need, ARTstor will provide five research travel awards in the amount of $1,500 each (to be used by September 1, 2011) to help support the educational and scholarly activities of graduate students, scholars, curators, educators, and librarians in any field in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences.
To be considered for a research travel award, applicants must create and submit an ARTstor image group (or a series of image groups) and a single accompanying essay that creatively and compellingly demonstrates why the image group(s) is useful for teaching, research, or scholarship. The five winning submissions will be determined by ARTstor staff. These submissions will help ARTstor to understand better the uses that scholars and teachers are making of ARTstor's content and tools and will provide us with insights into how we can continue to improve our efforts to serve the educational community.
For more information about the ARTstor Travel Awards, please see: www.artstor.org/travelawards
More from me soon!
The Amon Carter Museum seeks applications for the 2010 Davidson Family Fellowship. Established in 1997, the fellowship provides support for scholars working toward the Ph.D. or at the postdoctoral level to research topics in the history of American art and culture that relate to objects in the museum's permanent collections. The museum collections cover the period between 1835 to 1950 in painting, sculpture, drawings and prints, photography from its beginnings to the present, and rare books. Proposals from qualified individuals in related disciplines are also welcome.
The deadline for receipt of applications is March 15, 2010. The stipend is $5,000 for a minimum four-week period of full-time research conducted at the museum before September 30, 2010.
More information, including the application form, is available at:
http://www.cartermuseum.org/library/davidson-family-fellowship
And another award from ARTstor:
We would like to share information about a new ARTstor travel award program with you and your colleagues.
The ARTstor Travel Awards program will provide five research travel awards in the amount of $1,500 each to support educational and scholarly activities. While the digital age is opening up new approaches and techniques for using images of the world's cultural heritage as evidence in teaching and scholarship, there is no substitute for engagement with original works and sites, for research in archives that hold primary source material, or for attending conferences with colleagues engaged with similar issues. In recognition of this need, ARTstor will provide five research travel awards in the amount of $1,500 each (to be used by September 1, 2011) to help support the educational and scholarly activities of graduate students, scholars, curators, educators, and librarians in any field in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences.
To be considered for a research travel award, applicants must create and submit an ARTstor image group (or a series of image groups) and a single accompanying essay that creatively and compellingly demonstrates why the image group(s) is useful for teaching, research, or scholarship. The five winning submissions will be determined by ARTstor staff. These submissions will help ARTstor to understand better the uses that scholars and teachers are making of ARTstor's content and tools and will provide us with insights into how we can continue to improve our efforts to serve the educational community.
For more information about the ARTstor Travel Awards, please see: www.artstor.org/travelawards
More from me soon!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Exporting citations for images found in ARTstor to RefWorks bibliographic software.
Another thing that I learned how to do at the ARTstor workshop was to export citation information from ARTstor to RefWorks. RefWorks is a web based program that lets you organize your citations for books, magazines, and works of art into lists or folders which you can eventually use to create your bibliography or reference list for you research papers. I made a video tutorial with the steps of how to do this:
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Nifty ARTStor tips
Hello. I wanted to share a few tips that I thought were very interesting from the ARTstor workshop that we had in the library a couple of weeks ago.
- ARTstor has thousands of Quick Time Virtual Reality (QVTR) images of many famous art and architecture sites around the world. The QVTRs let you zoom in as well as go 360 degrees from in front af the work. You can even 180 degress up and down. You will have to try it to see.
- You can browse all the QVTRs by doing a basic search for QVTR or you can do an advanced search and use QVTR as one search term and then put the art or artist you are searching for in the next search field, such as Parthenon. When your results come up click on the QVTR link to see it rather than the image.
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- Another useful tip I learned was that you can search for images with with the keyword IAP to get "Images for Academic Publishing". You can do an advanced search with "IAP" in one search field and your art, architecture or artist keyword in the next search field. You can use these images for blogs or other published material.
- The other cool thing I learned was that you if you are searching for articles about art/artists in JSTOR you can access images from ARTstor that relate to that article with the tab in JSTOR that says Images in ARTstor.
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Hope you enjoyed these useful tips! Have a good one. Tara
Hope you enjoyed these useful tips! Have a good one. Tara
Sunday, January 25, 2009
ARTStor Training this Friday, 1/30/09, at Alkek Library
Hello and welcome to my Art & Design Inforama blog. Just wanted to let everyone know that there is an ARTStor training for staff, librarians, and faculty only this Friday from 10:00am to 4:00pm in the ITS training room, Alkek 119. It will be presented by an ARTStor representative.
Here is the lineup in case your interested in coming to a particular part of the training:
Here is the lineup in case your interested in coming to a particular part of the training:
- 10-11 ARTstor for Information Professionals (geared toward librarians and staff)
- 11-12 Introduction to ARTstor
- 1-2:30 Teaching with ARTstor
- 3-4 Presenting with ARTstor
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