The Victoria & Albert Museum announced it has launched a Beta version of their site’s Search the Collections. With this version they plan to increase the number of online object records from 56,000 to over a million. The temporary address is www.vam.ac.uk/cis-online, and they welcome comments and ways to improve what they have. Unfortunately, you…
ARTstor has put up some terrific short video tutorials on YouTube to help with individual tasks. The video topics include An Overview of the new ARTstor site, How to Register, How to Make an Image Group, and How to Download Images to PowerPoint. They’re great for learning something new or just for a refresher. The…
The sixth “Faculty Institute: Teaching with Technology” will be offered for UCSB faculty members September 15-17, 2009. The Institute is a joint effort of Instructional Development, Instructional Computing, and L&S Information Technology, and will consist of three all-day series of presentations and hands-on workshops. On Thursday Jackie Spafford will be leading a demonstration called “Incorporating…
This has been a good month for architecture in our collections! First the Archivision material that is now in MDID, and now a payload from UC Berkeley. The Visual Resources Center at UCB’s College of Environmental Design has made an enormous contribution to our UC Shared Images collection available in ARTstor. More than 20,000 images…
In the most recent ARTstor newsletter (PDF file) the letter from the Chairman and President that begins on page one describes a case study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our own John Senseney is mentioned in the illustration of the value of image sharing using ARTstor and SAHARA (its related program with the…