We’re getting closer to realizing our first big contribution to ARTstor – “Herbert Cole: African Art, Architecture, and Culture (University of California, Santa Barbara)”. Visual Resources Collection staff have worked with ARTstor to contribute 1,026 images from “Skip” Cole’s field research in the 1960s and 70s in Ghana, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire. …
The second phase of Richard Ross’ photography is now available through the VRC image database, MDID. This includes material from his books/projects “Man Up”, “Waiting for the End of the World” and “Suitable Placement: Juvenile Justice in America”. This brings the total to 481 images. You can read more about Richard and his work at…
Have you ever worked from home (or even abroad) and found a great source from which you would like images scanned? Well, we have good news: The IRC now has a Digital Order Form! This form, a digital version of our paper form, can be downloaded, filled in, and saved from any computer equipped with…
The architectural holdings available to us keep getting better! The Archivision base collection, and modules 1 and 2, have been available in ARTstor to all UC campuses for a few months. Module 4 is the group of 6,000 images that we’ve had available through MDID only (the license for which was won at the VRA…
We just passed 5,000 hits this morning – fantastic! We at the Red Dot are very happy, and grateful for your continued readership! If there’s anything you’d like to see more or less of, please let us know. With gratitude, Jackie and Christine
Two one-hour overviews on using image resources available at UCSB are scheduled over the next week. They will include a demonstration of the VRC image database (MDID), ARTstor and the OIV, instructions on how to set up accounts, new material in both resources, and other tips. The sessions are intended for graduate students but are…