The Getty Research Portal has created an overview and YouTube tutorial video in response to this past year’s experiences with remote teaching and learning. The video, which is approximately 10 minutes long, provides a brief introduction to the Portal’s background and virtual holdings, and demonstrates how to use it. Institutions are encouraged to link to the video in order…
The Library of Congress is collaborating with the international initiative Fragmentarium.ms to help pioneer digital fragmentology, piecing together long-ago manuscripts that were torn apart or had fallen into pieces over the centuries. Fragmentarium is building an international community around the ability to identify, search, compare, and collect data on medieval manuscript fragments. What does that…
The Kress Collection Digital Archive virtually unites objects in the Kress Collection and illustrates their history, acquisition, condition and care, and distribution. Gallery Archives staff compiled data about objects, related archival materials, object history (acquisitions and distributions), and associated people and organizations (artists, institutions, dealers and collectors, and historians and conservators). High-quality digital images of…
The Calder Foundation has amassed and organized an exhaustive archive on Alexander Calder and his work. The archive contains more than 26,000 historic photographs, dozens of films, and thousands of books, magazines, and press clippings, in addition to over 130,000 documents. The Foundation has registered in its archive more than 22,000 works made by Calder,…
The Library of Congress’s Free to Use and Reuse Sets features items from the Library’s digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. Each set of content…
From Artstor: Looking back at 2020, a year like no other – New resources for remote teaching and learning Get started with Artstor Gathered the resources to get librarians, faculty, and students started using our collections and tools. Teaching remotely with Artstor Everything faculty need to know to start enhancing their remote courses with…