ARTstor has partnered with SAHARA (Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive) to include SAH members’ photography. While much of this collection has only been available to SAH members, a large selection, called “Editor’s Choice” is now available to all ARTstor licensors. The SAHARA collection in ARTstor now has nearly 9,000 images, and 72 new…
Professor Alka Patel of UC Irvine has worked with ARTstor and UCI VRC staff to contribute over 7,000 of her field research images to the main ARTstor collection. These include the art and architecture of South Asia and Cuba. Read more about the content of this new addition here. This is an important project for…
Ever busy ARTstor has announced these new additions to their Digital Library: Dov Friedman: America and European Architecture: approximately 560 new photographs of historic and contemporary architecture in San Francisco, Washington DC and New York (38% of projected 1,500 total images completed; keyword search: dovfriedman) Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) Visual Resources Collection:…
To welcome you to another academic year, ARTstor has added these images to their Digital Library: Shuilu’an Temple (Northwestern University Academic and Research Technologies): 20 views, including 7 Quick Time Virtual Reality (QTVR) panoramas, documenting Buddhist sculpture at Shuilu’an Temple in Lantian, Shaanxi Province, China (keyword search: “shuilu’an temple” or shuilu’an qtvr) La Gazette du…
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…
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…