Finding Images Workshop 9/26/14 @ 2PM

The Merry Family, Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1668, oil on canvas, h 110.5cm × w 141cm. From the Rijksmuseum.

Need to find good quality images for your presentations or papers? Come to the Finding Images workshop to learn how use the library’s image databases, books, and public domain/open access image websites to find high quality images in all different subject areas including art, advertising, journalism, popular culture and more. Presentation tips, copyright, and tech tools will be also briefly be covered. 9/26/14 @ 2PM in Alkek 101. Register here.

New RSS Feed for Art & Design Titles!

You can now subscribe to an RSS feed of new Art & Design titles to see what has been most recently added to Alkek Library's collection. I will also add the feed to the right on the blog so you can always see the latest 4 additions.

Here is the page with all new title feeds, in case you are interested in viewing or subscribing to RSS feeds in other subject areas.  Enjoy!

Brian Dettmer's Amazing Carved Book Sculptures!

Wow this artist really makes some amazing book sculptures. If you do something like this please let me know! I can post your work too if you want. Also, the library is often weeding books and indexes so if you want any of them for making book sculptures, please contact me.

Link to new Art & Design titles list in the catalog

New titles for the department of Art & Design are added to the library catalog once a week. The new titles list link is available from the main catalog search page. The list keeps growing for 4 weeks. After 4 weeks the titles stop being posted on the NEW titles list and appear only in the regular catalog.

This new titles list contains new titles for Art, Communication Design, Theatre, Dance. The only way to tell which department ordered what title, since this list contains more than one department, is to look at the full record of a title and check the line that says "Local Subject". The first 2 numbers are the fiscal year the title was purchased and the next 2 numbers are the department it was for. If it says 31 then it was for Art & Design. If it says 30 it is for Communication Design MFA. Any other numbers are Theatre or Dance. The letter after the numbers on the "Local Subject" line is a F for ordered by faculty or L for ordered by librarian. Now you know some library secrets! I will repost the new titles link from time to time.


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Have a great weekend!