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.

Google Art Project - Wow!

The Google Art Project has been announced for about a week now and I am sure many of you have already seen it. But I just had to blog about it. What a fascinating tool! You can take virtual tours of museums all over the world and see art works in them. You can walk through the doorways into the different rooms and hallways of the museums and rotate 360 degrees! You can also view a slideshow of some of the works of art contained in the museum you are "attending." Many of the art works in the slideshow version are in extremely high resolution and allow you to zoom in for tiny details.

For a more critical description see the New York Times article, "The Work of Art in the Age of Google" about the Google Art Project.

And just to see if anybody's out there...what famous essay is the title of the New York Times article referencing? I know a lot of you had to read it in an art history class!

Ciao for now - Tara

Happy New Year! ARTstor tips and tools!

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!

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.

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: