NEW Database subscription - Coloribus advertising archive

Coloribus Global Advertising Archive


Coloribus contains more than 2 million current and historic ads (1990-present) for viewing online and download. Browse or Search by categories: TV & Cinema, Print, Outdoor, Ambient, Online, Viral, Direct Marketing, Promo, Design & Branding, Radio, Case study, and "the Making of". Main sections: Advertising Archive, Brands catalog, Awards & Festival Winners, Ad Mirror, and Focus. Use Advanced Search to specify Region, Business sector, Media, Keywords or a range of years.
RISD Library's subscription is for 15 simultaneous users.

Coloribus is listed and linked from the risd library website at: library.risd.edu > Resources > All Resources, and library.risd.edu > Resources > Images

VDM & RISD Theses revisited

RISD Library is receiving inquiries from recent RISD graduate alumni concerning the publisher VDM. For more information, see the earlier blog entry about VDM posted in April 2010.

New Hours for RISD Students visiting Brown Libraries

Message from Rockefeller Library's Circulation Department - Effective Immediately

Please share the following information about the change in access to the Rockefeller Library at Brown with your staff and library patrons.

In an effort to improve building security, the exterior doors to the Rockefeller Library will be locked weekdays at 10:00 PM -- effectively immediately. Access will be restricted to those with valid Brown cards; users will swipe their cards at the front door to gain admission.

Please note that the same card-access schedule has been in place at the Sciences Library for the last few years.

We want to emphasize that we continue to welcome your students and faculties' use of the Brown libraries and hope that the change in access to the Rock will not have a serious negative impact on their usage of our resources.

Library hours are linked here: http://library.brown.edu/libweb/hours.php . Additional information for visitors is available here http://library.brown.edu/libweb/visitors.php

Desert of Forbidden Love film screening

Synopsis
How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision are executed, sent to mental hospitals or Gulags.

Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky. He pretends to buy state-approved art but instead daringly rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artist's works and creates a museum in the desert of Uzbekistan, far from the watchful eyes of the KGB. Though a penniless artist himself, he cajoles the cash to pay for the art from the same authorities who are banning it. Savitsky amasses an eclectic mix of Russian Avant-Garde art. But his greatest discovery is an unknown school of artists who settle in Uzbekistan after the Russian revolution of 1917, encountering a unique Islamic culture, as exotic to them as Tahiti was for Gauguin. They develop a startlingly original style, fusing European modernism with centuries-old Eastern traditions.

Desert of Forbidden Love
Screening at the MFA, Boston on October 8, 2010

Important new online Fashion resource - Berg Fashion Library

The Berg Fashion Library -an authoritative source on world dress

The Berg Fashion Library is a unique online portal which offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more. For a full list of content click here.

Students and scholars in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies, theatre, and cultural studies as well as fashion and textiles will find the Berg Fashion Library a treasury of fascinating insights into people and cultures all over the world.

The Berg Fashion Library will be updated at least three times a year.

Featured Online Reference Source - An African Biographical Dictionary

An African Biographical Dictionary provides a wealth of vital information for students of African culture and is an indispensable reference guide for anyone interested in African affairs.

This source is brought to you through an electronic database subscription via RISD Library.

W. S. Merwin named 17th Poet Laureate

W.S. Merwin has been named Poet Laureate

World ebook Fair

Public access to ebooks online

5th Annual World eBook Fair
July 4th to August 4th, 2010
Download Your Selections from (3,500,000+ PDF eBooks)Three Million eBooks Titles

World ebook Fair

New and mproved Video/DVD policy

We have been listening...

Effective June 21, 2010 our video/DVD policy will be changing:

For RISD undergrads and grads, CE faculty, RISD staff, and RISD trustees:
3 videos and/or DVDs can be checked out for 7 days (up from 3 days). The overdue fine is $2 a day per item (down from $5 a day).
Recall fines are $5 a day per item.

For RISD faculty, curators, and RISD admin staff:
5 videos and/or DVDs can be checked out for 7 days with 1 renewal. The overdue fine is $2 a day per item (down from $5 a day). Recall fines are $5 a day per item.

This applies to all video and DVDs checked out on and after June 21, 2010.

ThoughtLab > Semantic Search Lab prototype

ThoughtLab > Semantic Search Lab

A research prototype of a semantic search engine for Europeana. As this is work in progress, multilingual support is still limited. The prototype's interface is currently only available in English, French and Dutch. The search engine contains data of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (Netherlands Institute for Art History). in The Hague. These data are for demonstration purposes only; some data might be outdated and there is no claim of completeness..

see the prototype

CultureCount - New England's Cultural Database

CultureCount is NEFA's(New England Foundation for the Arts) creative economy database. Visitors can search a comprehensive directory of New England's cultural nonprofits, creative businesses, and individual artists. Other financial, grants, and geographic tools are build onto the directory.

Who's using CultureCount?
Artists and creative businesses adding themselves to the only FREE online directory of New England's 30,706 cultural assets.

Business People researching financial, demographic and geographic information of communities and potential investments.

Researchers accessing special tools such as data downloads, survey administration, customized website portals and Impact Calculator.

Policy Makers analyzing the economic impact of the nonprofit cultural sector with the Impact Calculator.

Journalists gathering information about New England community events.

Cultural Organizations responding to NEFA's annual nonprofit financial survey.

Grantees submitting NEFA online grant applications and forms.

Library privileges for graduating students

At this time of year the library receives questions about library privileges for those who are graduating.
The good news is that RISD graduates have library privileges as RISD alumni. Visit the Alumni Relations Office to pick up your alumni card. Show your card to gain entry to the RISD Library. RISD alumni must present their current RISD alumni card and register for a library account at the Circulation Desk. There is no fee to receive an alumni card or to register for a RISD alumni library account.

RISD Alumni Library privileges include:
* check out 5 RISD books for 4 weeks plus one 4-week renewal via My Record

* On-site access to RISD Library's online subscription resources (no remote, log-in access)

* Research assistance via the Reference Department

Note: RISD Alumni borrowing does not include RISD Media, Brown or Athenaeum Library privileges

RISD Alumni Relations
20 Washington Place
3rd floor, Room 319
Hours, M-F: 8:30am-4:30pm
Phone: 401-454-6379
Fax: 401-454-6802
or email Claire Robinson in Alumni Relations

Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress

The microblogging service Twitter has gifted its entire archive of tweets, totalling billions of 140-character posts dating back to March 2006, to the Library of Congress.
Read more....

Midnight Hours Spring 2010

The Library will be open until Midnight on the following dates:
Sunday-Thursday, May 16-20, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Thanks to John, Stephen, and Ellen for working 4pm-midnight!

ARTstor scheduled outage Saturday May 1st, 2010

Please be advised, ARTstor will be performing temporary maintenance on Saturday evening, May 1, 2010 between the hours of 9:00 PM and 2:00 AM EDT. At this time, service will be termporarily suspended.

Library Survey

Dear RISD Student:

The Library needs your feedback. We are in the midst of strategic
planning on the campus and would like your input. The link below
will take you to a web-based survey with questions specific to the Library.
It should take you about 10 minutes to complete and will be available
at this site through May 7.

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AG45FMEXL


Many thanks for helping us out with this important project.

Sincerely,
Jessie Shefrin, Provost
Carol Terry, Director of Library Services

VDM Publishing

VDM Publishing is contacting many of our alumni about publishing their thesis.
Quoted text from a VDM email:

"Dear ___________,

I am writing on behalf of the international academic publisher, VDM Publishing House Ltd.

In the course of a research at the Library of Rhode Island School of Design, we came across a reference to your thesis on "Title of your RISD Thesis".

As we would like to make your work available to a larger audience, I am wondering if you may be interested in publishing your thesis in the form of a printed book.

Your reply including an e-mail address to which I can send an e-mail with further information in an attachment will be greatly appreciated.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Calix Furus

Acquisition Editor

VDM Publishing House Ltd.

17, Meldrum Str. | Beau-Bassin | Mauritius
Tel / Fax: +230 467-5601
c.furus(at)vdm-publishing-house.com| www.vdm-publishing-house.com

Business Registration No.: C07072290
Board of Director:Benoit Novel"


The Fleet Library at RISD does not work with this publisher. Here is a link to a discussion about the publisher on the Chronicle Forums:
http://chronicle.com
/forums/index.php/topic,45997.0.html

Using Brown Library's wireless network

Q: Can RISD students use Brown's wireless network?
A: Unfortunately, no. Wireless access at Brown requires a Brown ID.

Bibliography of the History of Art (Research at the Getty)

Bibliography of the History of Art (Research at the Getty) Free & Online

Flood assistance resources

Flood assistance resources

Photographing artwork

Where can I photograph my artwork on campus?

Media Resources has the following equipment available for checkout-
EQUIPMENT LIST (partial):
20" -- 5" Video Monitors (CRT)
19? & 4? LCD/DVD Panels
Slide Projectors & Slide Dissolves
Digital Projectors
Document Camera With Projector
Overhead & Opaque Projectors
16 mm Film Projectors
DVD Players and DVD Recorders
VCR Players
MiniDV Players
Portable & Other P.A. Systems
Powered Speakers
Wide Varity of Microphones
Portable Hard Drives & USB Drives
CF Audio/Field Recorders
Real Time CD Recorders
Boom Boxes With CD Players
Camcorders (MiniDV, & VHS)
Digital Cameras (9 & 10 mgpxl)
Tungsten Lighting Kits
Laptops (FOR PRESENTATIONS ONLY)

Copystand:
There is a 20" x 30" copy stand with Tungsten lights located on the first floor of RISD Library, room 111. More info

Spaces:
RISD Library's classroom 228 can be reserved one week in advance. The room has several tables that can be moved to accommodate 3-D work. Bring your own photo lights.

Book in a Day

Print a small book edition in one day, combining text & image with hand printing & water based inks. Even if you have never made an image before, you will gain confi-dence and amaze yourself and your friends when you show off your very own book! Create and design your image, transfer the image, plan the printing sequence, carve a soft block, and print it by hand with a brayer and water based inks. Each letter of text will be set in rubber fonts. Collage elements will be encouraged.
All aspects of this green print shop can be recreated at home.
In this workshop, students will create an accordion book with text and images, and complete a small edition (up to 4 books). All materials will be provided (paper, type, soft blocks, brayers, inks, collage papers, Speedball carving tools).
Limited to 10 students, open ONLY to Brown and RISD undergraduates
To register, e-mail Richard Ring (richard_ring@brown.edu) BEFORE March 1, 2010

Instructor:
Mindy Beloff
Proprietor of the Intima Press (NYC)

Location:
THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY
An institution for Advanced Research in History and the Humanities at Brown University.
Corner of George and Brown streets
Main Green, Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
tel: 401.863.2725
fax: 401.863.3477
Email: JCBL_Information@Brown.edu
THE LIBRARY is an independently administered and funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities, founded in 1846 and located at Brown University since 1901.

National Newspapers and Science Encyclopedia Database Trials

The library currently has trials to two databases.

Access Science's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Proquest's National Newspapers Premier

Both databases are set up to work on campus.

Please email your feedback on the databases to risdlib@risd.edu

NYPL and maps

The New York Public Library recently launched a new Map Rectifier website that works in conjunction with maps in its Digital Gallery. The site allows zooming, panning, and georectification—a process that allows digital images to be stretched, placing the maps themselves into their geographic context. Once a historical map has been digitally warped, users can virtually “trace” features, such as cities, farm boundaries, rivers, ponds, and even buildings, converting them into digital geospatial data....
NYPL Blogs, Feb. 3

National Archives Joins the Flickr Commons

National Archives Joins the Flickr Commons

The collection includes Ansel Adams photos. The U.S. National Archives flickr photostream.

photos sources of the human figure

Where can I find photographs of figures in different poses to draw?

These books are listed under the subjects, human figure in art and anatomy-artistic pictorial works. Follow this link for a combined search of both subjects.

Or try these:
Virtually browse the call number area NC765

Entourage(architectural rendering)

Eadweard Muybridge

The Picture Collection collects images and arranges them into folders by subject. Follow this link to see folders on human figures

LACMA's Reading Room

Los Angeles County Museum of Art has launched a digital archive of their exhibition catalogs called reading room. Currently this collection consists of 10 catalogs mostly from the 1960s. More to come in April 2010.

Journal Cessations 2010

The following journals ceased publication:

American Ceramics
Artifact
Clear Magazine (print version)
Contemporary Magazine
Folk Art
ID
Object
Prophecy
Step Inside Design
Studies in the Decorative Arts
Tema Celeste

RISD Writing Center's Graduate Thesis Writing Workshops during Wintersession

Four thesis writing workshops will take place in Library classroom 228.
See the Writing Center's flyer for workshop dates, times, and topics.

Database Trial: Art and Architecture Complete

We have a trial to EBSCOhost's Art and Architecture Complete.

Access this databases trail via the RISD Library Website:
Resources >
All Resources or Articles >
Select any EBSCOhost database such as Academic Search Premier >
Select Art and Architecture Complete

Let us know what you think.

Description from EBSCOhost:
"Art & Architecture Complete™ is the definitive research database for the study of art and architecture. This database provides full-text coverage of more than 250 periodicals and 150 books. In addition, Art & Architecture Complete offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 630 academic journals, magazines and trade publications as well as for over 150 books. The database also provides selective coverage for more than 50 additional publications.

Art & Architecture Complete has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes art scholars, artists, designers, college students, and general researchers.

This database covers a wide variety of pertinent subjects, including antiques, art and art history, interior and landscape design, and much more."