Announcing MetPublications

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched MetPublications, a new online resource that offers in-depth access to the Museum's publications. Beginning with nearly 650 titles published from 1964 to the present, each offering a variety of features and functions, this unique portal is established to provide scholarly information and enjoyment to a broad audience.

Wormholes

Wormholes in art prints tell a story.

Zotero bookmarklet for ipad/iphone

Zotero now has a bookmarklet for the ipad and iphone. You can now save a source (databases, websites, etc) to your Zotero library.

Blue Mountain Project

The Princeton University Library has announced the launch of the Blue Mountain Project, an open-access digital thematic research collection of avant-garde art, music and literary periodicals (1848-1923). Drawing together rare material from Princeton’s Art, Music and Rare Books libraries, the Blue Mountain Project will provide high-quality digital images as well as full-text searching, deep indexing of content, detailed metadata and descriptive essays to a broad audience. With generous support from the NEH, the Blue Mountain Project will make 34 titles available over the next two years. A full list of these periodicals – which are in English, German, French, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Czech and Russian – can be found on the Blue Mountain project page.

EBSCOhost downtime for My EBSCOhost on Oct 26 from 7-8am

News from EBSCOhost: Please note that for about one hour beginning at 7:00 a.m. EDT (UTC-5) on Friday, October 26, 2012 certain EBSCOhost functionality will be unavailable due to planned maintenance. Please note that EBSCOhost will continue to be available during this brief interval, however EBSCOhost with Navigator may experience intermittent interrupted access. Affected functionality will include: Personal User Authentication Checkout and Download of eBooks Alerts Access to My EBSCOhost folder items or the ability to save items to personalized folders from session We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this short maintenance interval.

Brown University’s Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab

In October, Brown University is opening up the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab in the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library. The lab features a large-scale visualization video wall consisting of 12 high-resolution, 55-inch LED screens that form a 7-by-16-foot display with a combined resolution of over 24 megapixels, creating a high-quality viewing and analytical space. It also features a surround-sound audio system, videoconferencing capabilities, specialized lighting, and several individual touch-screen monitors.... Brown University Library News, Oct. 3

Art.sy

Discover the world’s great art on Art.sy Richard Byrne writes: “Art.sy is a new site that has indexed thousands of works of art that you can view online. It allows you to browse for artworks according to medium, style, subject matter, movement, or region in which the art is produced. Once you’ve found an artwork that you like, Art.sy helps you find more by suggesting related works. It will serve as a nice supplement to art history and art appreciation courses.” Art.sy went live on October 8.... Free Technology for Teachers, Oct. 9; New York Times, Oct. 8

David Rees and Blackwing Pencils: Artisanal Pencil Sharpening

How to sharpen a pencil video.

The Art of Library Date Stamps

An artist uses due date stamps to create art.

Book Installation

Massive River of 10,000 Discarded Books Rages Through Melbourne.

Fold This! Pop-up Books & Paper Engineering

"Movable books have been around for more than 700 years." Read More. See RISD's pop-up books.

Europeana

Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe. It is an authoritative source of information coming from European cultural and scientific institutions. On September 12, 2012 Europeana opened "up data about all 20 million of the items it holds under the CC0 rights waiver. This means that anyone can reuse the data for any purpose - whether using it to build applications to bring cultural content to new audiences in new ways, or analysing it to improve our understanding of Europe's cultural and intellectual history." For more info see: The Guardian article.

Color Blind

An interesting post on color blindness and Van Gogh on Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish.

Getty Research Portal

"The Getty Research Portal™ is an online search platform providing global access to digitized art history texts in the public domain. Through this multilingual, multicultural union catalog, scholars can search and download complete digital copies of publications for the study of art, architecture, material culture, and related fields. The Portal is free to all users." http://portal.getty.edu/

BOOKMARK: Student Made Artists' Books at RISD Library

Curated by Jan Baker

Display Dates:

2nd floor Exhibition Case, April 6 - June 2, 2012 (shortened due to library construction)

1st Floor & Mezzanine Exhibition Cases,

April 6 - July 31, 2012

As Professor Jan Baker celebrates her year as a Library Fellow in RISD Artists’ Book Collection, she marks her 30 years teaching Book Arts Courses at RISD; with the exhibition BOOKMARK, which can be viewed in the RISD Library from April through July 2012.

Everyone has an interesting story deep down within themselves. Jan has been encouraging her students to bring forth their inner stories, by inspiring them to create their own artists’ books. In this extensive exhibition, you will note numerous themes such as alphabets, travel, culture, nature, animals, senses, food and life stories. Each of these stories were written, edited, designed, printed and hand-bound by her students into a final book. Students experimented with different papers, printing techniques and binding structures.

Even though you can’t open each and every one of these books to read their touching narratives, there is a BOOKMARK to pique your curiosity of what fascinating stories lie within. Perhaps you will be inspired by Jan’s students creativity and make a book this summer, about a story you have inside of yourself.

Jan Baker, RISD Graphic Design Professor & Library Fellow in the Artists' Book Collection 2011-2012

Celebrate Books by Day & Night

Celebrate UNESCO's World Book Day today, Monday April 23, 2012 and World Book Night by reading from a list of 30 chosen titles.

Future of the Book Symposium at MIT

Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book This symposium explores the future potential of the book by engaging practitioners and performers of this versatile technology to ask some key questions: is the book an artifact on its deathbed or a mutable medium transitioning into future forms? What shape will books of the future take? Grounded in this technology’s history, we will reflect critically on possible futures, promises, and challenges of the book, showcasing practices by writers and artists, putting them in conversation with scholars and thinkers from across the disciplines who are framing discourse and questions about book-related technotexts. This symposium hopes to foster a lively discussion where audience members participate and invoke their multiple perspectives of the book.

Library Survey!

Hi from the Fleet Library at RISD!

This is National Library Week, and we would love to get your thoughts and ideas on the RISD Library. Please take 5 - 10 minutes to fill out the following survey. (It will be available until April 20.)

Link to survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RISDLibrarySurvey

Thanks from all the staff at the library.

Google Art Project

Learn more about the Google Art Project here.

Bibliophilia - books we love & why

To celebrate National Library Week, April 8-14, 2012, we invite RISD Students, Faculty and Staff to select 1-3 of their favorite RISD Library items to be displayed on the stadium seating in the first floor Library Reading Room. Favorite items may include any combination of Media, Reference, Oversize and Main books as well as circulating Picture Collection and Material Resource Center items. Include 1-2 sentences about what sets this particular book, film or visual material apart from others. Comments are optional and will be included in the display.

Just fill out the online form for the Bibliophilia exhibition or the printed cards which are available at service desks throughout the Library.
We'll pull the items and put them on display.

Spead the word - tell your friends, colleagues, and student workers about the exhibition.
Invite them to select a favorite book, film or material from our collection.

The display will run Sunday April 8 - Sunday April 22, 2012

Current Topics in Textiles + Library Research by RISD Apparel Students

http://textileincubator.wordpress.com/

Textile Incubator is a place for Rhode Island School of Design Apparel students and faculty to post information about their favorite textile and apparel happenings. From new innovations in electronic textiles to the history of denim, no topic is off-limits. If you can wear it, knit it, sew it, dye it or print it… we’ll blog it.

Providence Athenaeum in the news

NPR: Athena's Library, The Quirky Pillar Of Providence

ARTstor updates - Folders changes and Chome browser

There was an update to the ARTstor Digital Library this week. New changes include:

* Full support for Chrome browsers.
* In your image search results, you may now see icons on the lower right-hand corner of the image thumbnail: "P" denotes Personal Collection (for images uploaded by a campus instructor), and "H" Hosted images (for images visible only at your institution).
* Folders are now nested in two upper level folders: "Private Folders" and "Institutional Folders." "Private Folders" contains folders viewable only by you. "Institutional Folders" contains folders that are viewable by other users at your institution either as "Public" folders or as "Password-protected" folders.


After this update, some users may find that they cannot see their folders or image groups; clearing the browser cache should resolve the issue. Read detailed instructions on how to do this on our help wiki.

And of course, you can contact User Services for more help at userservices@artstor.org.

Library Online Catalog Down for Updates on Wednesday

Update: upgrades down last night when the library was closed. Online catalog is working.

The Library online catalog will be down for updates tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb 15 from 8:30 am to 10:30 am.

Wintersession Break Hours

Sat Feb 11 10am-6pm

Sun Feb 12 Closed

Mon Feb 13 - Th Feb 16 8:30am-8pm

Fri Feb 17 8:30am-4:30pm

Sat Feb 18 Closed

Sun Feb 19 Regular Hours Resume