ARTstor, a new image database, now available!
The Hermann Memorial Library is proud to announce it has acquired a license to ARTstor Digital Library, making available to our faculty, staff and students this vast database of high quality digital images for teaching, presentations and other scholarly use. “The ARTstor Digital Library offers more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.”
From ARTstor’s brochure: “Our mission is to work with the community to build an online image library, and to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching, and learning in the arts and associated fields. Initiated by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2001, ARTstor has been an independent nonprofit organization since 2003 and a live service since July 2004. In the 1990s, when libraries began seeking better ways to store and retrieve vast amounts of information, many resources were being converted from analog formats to digital formats. In this period, Kodak announced it would discontinue producing the slide projector, spurring hundreds of educational institutions to seek ways of digitizing their vast slide collections. ARTstor was founded in order to create a shared, noncommercial repository of teaching and research images needed by scholars, curators, librarians, students, and educators. ARTstor collections comprise contributions from museums, libraries, photo archives, photographers, scholars, artists, and artists’ estates. We serve users in a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American studies, Asian studies, Classical studies, medieval studies, Renaissance studies, and much more. Our community-built collections are growing rapidly with more than one million images from over 150 superb collections.”
Teachers can use ARTstor images in Powerpoint presentations to their classes, or make available to students folders of images for study. Please contact Richard Arnold, Public Services Librarian (rarnold@sullivan.suny.edu) to set up special authorizations for teachers. Training tutorials are offered on the ARTstor website; training webinars are scheduled regularly that you can register for.
You may access ARTstor from our library website. From the library’s main page, go to the left hand column “Find Resources”, and under that click on “Subject Resources”. On the Subject Resources page, click on “Art History”. Scroll to the bottom of the Art History page where you will find the link that takes you to ARTstor.
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