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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

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Monday, February 27, 2006

Canyon Lights World Art Image Bank and ARTstor

Collaborative Agreement Reached Between Canyon Lights World Art Image Bank and ARTstor

Canyon Lights World Art Image Bank and ARTstor announced today that they had reached an
agreement to collaborate on the digitization and distribution through ARTstor of nearly
3,000 high quality digital images from the rich Canyon Lights archive of original
photography. As an art historian and photographer, Susan Silberberg-Peirce of Canyon
Lights has been professionally documenting ancient sites - especially throughout the
Mediterranean region, as well as in Europe and the American Southwest - for 20 years. Her
slides and photographs of Megalithic, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Medieval, and Southwest
Native American sites are widely used in teaching and research in universities and
museums throughout America, Canada, and Europe, and have frequently been published in
reference books and journals; many are also available as photographic prints. These
images will significantly enhance ARTstor's value to teachers as well as scholars.

As part of this collaboration, ARTstor will also sponsor a 2006 photographic campaign in
the American Southwest, intended to help Canyon Lights expand and deepen its already
strong documentation of both Prehistoric and Native American sites, especially thoughout
New Mexico.

In reaching this agreement, Dr. Susan Silberberg-Peirce of Canyon Lights and Max Marmor,
ARTstor's Director of Collection Development, expressed their shared enthusiasm in
collaborating to use digital technologies to make these high quality images of art works,
architectural monuments and archeological sites more broadly available for noncommercial
educational and scholarly purposes. "As a scholar and professor, I am acutely aware of
the educational community's need for high quality images. As a photographer, I am
delighted to have the opportunity to share my documentation with a wider audience through
ARTstor's distinguished portal," comments Dr. Silberberg-Peirce. "Our new partnership
with Canyon Lights represents an important milestone in ARTstor's ongoing effort to
provide teachers, scholars and students with high-quality digital images, especially
images that document key archeological and architectural monuments and sites. Susan
Silberberg-Peirce's images have been widely used by teachers and scholars in slide form,
and we are delighted to help make them available now online as well," adds Marmor. "We
are especially excited at the prospect of working with Canyon Lights in an ongoing way to
further develop both their already extraordinarily rich archives and ARTstor's growing
library of digital art images."

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Prehistoric and Native American sites). In addition to its archive of original slides and
photographs, which is the focus of the present collaboration, Canyon Lights also
represents a number of European and Australian museums and vendors.

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Friday, February 24, 2006

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Gernsheim Photographic and ARTstor

Collaborative Agreement Reached Between the Gernsheim Photographic Corpus of Drawings
and ARTstor

The Gernsheim Photographic Corpus of Drawings and ARTstor are pleased to announce that
they have formed an ongoing collaboration with a goal of creating a digital version of
the Gernsheim Photographic Corpus of Drawings, the renowned photographic archive of more
than 184,000 old master drawings.

For more than half a century, the Gernsheim Photographic Corpus of Drawings has been
documenting old master drawings in scores of archives, libraries and museums around the
world. An ongoing effort of Dr. Walter and Dr. Jutta Gernsheim, the Corpus embodies an
unsurpassed commitment to serving the scholarly needs of the international community of
art historians. The Corpus presently embodies more than 184,000 extraordinary
black-and-white photographs of European old master drawings from the 15th to the early
20th century. As a subscription service, the Corpus is available in its entirety at only
a very small number of scholarly photo archives in Europe, Britain and America.
Incomplete copies of the Corpus may be found in a few other locations. But this
remarkable resource has never been readily accessible to the majority of scholars,
teachers and curators who would benefit from consulting its riches.

ARTstor has now developed an ongoing partnership with the Gernsheim Corpus, the goal of
which is to progressively digitize and distribute through ARTstor a comprehensive online
version of this invaluable art historical resource. As the project proceeds, the two
partners will seek to engage the participation of the many museums whose drawings
collections are represented in the Corpus, and ARTstor accordingly anticipates making
digital versions of the images available to ARTstor participants in phases.

The British Museum has already expressed its enthusiasm for the distribution through
ARTstor of the nearly 17,000 old master drawings from its collections that have been
photographed over the decades by the Gernsheim Corpus. These will be the first fruits of
this exciting collaboration. The British Museum will also share with ARTstor its online
cataloging data for these drawings. Antony Griffiths, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at
the British Museum, voiced the museum's strong support for ARTstor's effort to both
preserve the Gernsheim Corpus and help it enter a new era as a key resource for the art
historian - something that has been high on the agenda of the larger community of
drawings curators. "The British Museum has been associated with the Gernsheim
Photographic Corpus since its beginning, and has seen it grow into the greatest archive
of photos of Old Master drawings in the world. We are now delighted that it will be made
more widely available through ARTstor." ARTstor is now inviting further museums to
participate in this important project. The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and
the Philadelphia Museum of Art have recently added their support to that of the British
Museum.

In reaching this agreement, James Shulman, Executive Director of ARTstor, expressed
ARTstor's enthusiasm in collaborating to use digital technologies to make this unique
resource more broadly available for noncommercial educational and scholarly purposes.
"The Gernsheim Corpus is truly a unique labor of love," says Shulman. "We at ARTstor are
privileged and excited to be playing a role in making this unrivaled reference resource
more widely available to the community of scholars and curators in a new medium."

ARTstor anticipates inviting a team of collaborators, including both collaborating
museums and such key photo archives as the Biblioteca Hertziana (Rome), The Frick Art
Reference Library (New York), and the Getty Research Institute (a program of the J. Paul
Getty Trust in Los Angeles), to join in a coordinated effort to normalize, enhance and
convert to electronic form the cataloging data associated with the Gernsheim Corpus.
ARTstor also welcomes the collaboration of the Cleveland Museum of Art in this project.
The museum's copy of the Gernsheim Corpus is both comprehensive and well-preserved, and
using this copy as a scanning source will allow ARTstor to take full advantage of the
enormous care with which the photographic prints have been developed by the Gernsheims.

ARTstor  was created in 2001 as a nonprofit initiative of The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and is now an independent non-profit organization dedicated
to serving education and scholarship in the arts and the humanities. Currently, more than
530 non-profit institutions in the U.S. and Canada are participating in ARTstor. A pilot
distribution is underway in the UK and Australia/New Zealand, and further international
availability is being actively explored.

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Additions to ARTstor

Recent additions to the ARTstor Digital Library

We are delighted to announce the addition of the following new image archives to the ARTstor Digital Library. Both archives deal with essential aspects of the human experience and they should be of interest to a wide range of scholars and teachers. These archives have been integrated into the Image Gallery.

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Islamic Art and Architecture from the archives of scholar-photographers

Some months ago, we announced an agreement to collaborate on the distribution through ARTstor of up to 25,000 high quality digital images of the art and architecture of Islam from the personal archives of a team of leading scholar photographers in this field: Sheila Blair, Jonathan Bloom and Walter B. Denny. We are delighted now to announce that the first fruits of this collaboration are available in the ARTstor Digital Library. The first 1,646 images have now been integrated into the Image Gallery.

These materials reflect the scholarly and teaching interests of the contributors, but have been selected to provide ARTstor users with a broad overview of the rich traditions of Islamic art and architecture in all their regional diversity and historic scope. Sheila Blair's major areas of research are Islamic art, especially the arts of Iran and Central Asia, the art and architecture produced under the Mongols, calligraphy and books. Jonathan Bloom's primary areas of research include Islamic art and architecture, the history of paper, and art in the medieval Mediterranean world. In addition to specialized courses on various aspects of Islamic art and architecture ranging from the history of Jerusalem to the Silk Road, they team-teach a survey course on Islamic civilization.

Walter B. Denny's primary field of teaching and research is the art and architecture of the Islamic world, in particular the artistic traditions of the Ottoman Turks, Islamic carpets and textiles, and issues of economics and patronage in Islamic art. In addition to teaching a two-semester survey sequence on Islamic art and architecture, Professor Denny has taught a large undergraduate topical survey course, Introduction to the Visual Arts, every fall for more than three decades. His upper-level courses have focused on various aspects of Islamic and European art, including an historical survey of the art of the oriental carpet, and a course on orientalism in Western art.

In reaching this agreement, Walter B. Denny said, "This will be a marvelous opportunity to share a substantial portion of the over 140,000 images I have accumulated in my archive over 40 years. I anticipate that the availability of these resources through ARTstor will make it significantly easier for courses on Islamic art to be offered in institutions throughout the world." We are delighted to introduce the first of many forthcoming installments of this important body of images.

To locate these images by photographer in the ARTstor Image Gallery most readily, search by photographer's name ("Blair," "Bloom," or "Denny"): search under such broader categories as "Islamic art" and "Islamic architecture"; or search by more precise keywords pertaining to the art and architecture of Islam.

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Medieval Manuscript Painting from Princeton University Library

With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Princeton Index of Christian Art has been conducting a project to catalog 400 of the 500 Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts contained in the collection of the Princeton University Library, and to digitize the illuminated leaves from these manuscripts. Princeton's Medieval and Renaissance manuscript collection spans the fifth to the 16th centuries and includes many priceless treasures. The collection is especially renowned for its 14th- and 15th-century holdings, most of which have never before been either fully cataloged or photographed.

The images contained in some 200 of these manuscripts have now been photographed, digitized and classified by the Index of Christian Art. The 3,417 illustrations are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library.

To locate these images in the ARTstor Image Gallery most readily, search for "Index of Christian Art."

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Ghiberti's "Gates of Paradise"

Through an agreement with the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore and the Museo Opificio delle Pietre Dure (Florence, Italy). ARTstor has been supporting the rich photographic documentation of the recently restored bronze doors on the east side of the Florentine Baptistery, universally known as the "Gates of Paradise" (in Italian, "Porta del Paradiso"). The sculptural relief panels of the "Gates of Paradise," produced during the second quarter of the fifteenth century by the great Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455), constitute one of the most important art works of the early Italian Renaissance. After more than twenty-five years of work, the restoration of Ghiberti's famous "Gates of Paradise" is nearing completion. ARTstor is sponsoring the comprehensive photographic documentation of the Gates of Paradise in their newly restored state. This photographic campaign has produced nearly 700 stunning, detailed photographs of Ghiberti's relief sculptures, all of which have now been digitized by ARTstor and the majority of which are now available as part of the ARTstor Digital Library.

In announcing this project, Gary M. Radke, Professor of Fine Arts at Syracuse University and Curator for Exhibitions of Italian Art at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, said: "These splendid new photos finally allow Ghiberti's work to be seen and studied as the three-dimensional, sculptural masterpieces they are. Never before have we been able to study Ghiberti's works so clearly and in such exhaustive detail. Taken from a wide variety of angles and under lighting conditions that reveal the full subtlety of Ghiberti's modeling and finishing, these images will transform thinking about Ghiberti for decades to come."

To locate these images in the ARTstor Image Gallery most readily, search for "Ghiberti Quattrone," so as to retrieve only these new photographs (produced by the outstanding Florentine photographer, Antonio Quattrone).

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Additional Images from Museums

In July 2005, ARTstor announced the release into the ARTstor Digital Library of more than 25,000 images from the former AMICO Library. We subsequently announced that an additional eight institutions, formerly part of AMICO, had contributed a total of 55,000 further images to ARTstor. That brought the number of images in ARTstor from institutions which were formerly AMICO members to approximately 80,000.

We are delighted to announce that we have recently added images from the Art Institute of Chicago, bringing the number of images formerly in the AMICO Library to approximately 90,000.

To locate these images in the ARTstor Image Gallery most readily, search for "Art Institute of Chicago" combined with "amico."

Monday, February 20, 2006

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Friday, February 17, 2006

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

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Technology, Engineering & Manufacturing
http://www.uptilt.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=4t6,i863,58n,k84u,k898,1spf,h4oz
Travel & Geography
http://www.uptilt.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=4t6,i863,58n,fvy3,e425,1spf,h4oz

Sarah Quill and ARTstor

* Collaborative Agreement Reached Between Sarah Quill and ARTstor *

Sarah Quill and ARTstor announced today that they had reached an
agreement to collaborate on the digitization and distribution through
ARTstor of several thousand images from Sarah Quill�s unique
photographic archive devoted to the architectural history of the city
of Venice, Italy. For more than 30 years, Sarah Quill has been
photographing the buildings and civic life of Venice. Her marvelous
photographs have been reproduced in innumerable books and articles
devoted to subjects ranging from the architecture of the Italian
Renaissance to architectural conservation and cultural heritage
policy, as well as in her own publications, including Ruskin�s Venice:
The Stones Revisited. Through this agreement, ARTstor will digitize up
to 10,000 slides from Sarah Quill�s unique archive.

In reaching this agreement, Sarah Quill and Max Marmor, ARTstor�s
Director of Collection Development, expressed their enthusiasm in
collaborating to preserve this unique archive and to make its contents
available for educational and scholarly use through ARTstor. �I am
delighted that the archive will be associated with this important
resource� comments Sarah Quill. �Our exciting partnership with Sarah
Quill represents a major milestone in ARTstor�s effort to provide a
rich body of architectural history images for use by teachers,
students and scholars,� adds Marmor. �No major European city has been
more richly documented than the city of Venice, thanks to Sarah
Quill�s epic documentation effort.�

Sarah Quill is the preeminent modern photographer and chronicler of
the built environment and public spaces of Venice. She works in London
and Venice, and is well-known as photographer, teacher, and scholar.

ARTstor (http://www.artstor.org) was created in 2001 as a non-profit initiative of The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and is now an independent non-profit
organization dedicated to serving education and scholarship in the
arts and the humanities. Currently, more than 500 non-profit
institutions in the U.S. and Canada are participating in ARTstor. A
pilot distribution is underway in the UK and Australia/New Zealand,
and further international availability is being actively explored.

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Factiva Needs Feedback

A Whole New Way to Look at a Factiva Search- Online Informational Sessions

In response to customer feedback regarding the Factiva search screen, a testing environment has been created to solicit your feedback and comments on potential new directions for the database. A preview version of Search 2.0 with Factiva Discovery Technology is available to all Factiva.com subscribers and is accessed by clicking on a link within Factiva.com that launches a new browser window. (You'll see the link in the top left hand corner of the current search screen.) If you decide not to try the preview, your familiar Factiva.com experience will not be affected.

Within this test site, you'll experience Factiva's newest generation of capabilities that deliver search results that take you far beyond a list of headlines. Factiva Search 2.0, based on innovative discovery technologies, offers significantly more powerful filtering, impressive results visualization, and enhanced navigational tools that help eliminate information overload. The testing environment will only be available until March 25.

Most importantly, you are given an opportunity to evaluate the preview as often as you'd like. We encourage you to submit your feedback and comments by using the "feedback" link at the top right of the Beta search screen. They want to hear from you.

Online Training Sessions for Beta Search Screen & Enhancements in February & March

In addition, there are quite a few enhancements to Factiva.com that you should know about. You'll have an opportunity to learn more about these enhancements in an informational webinar with your ProQuest Trainer, Kimberly Bastian.

You and any interested colleagues can register for one of our special sessions on the calendar at: http://inter.viewcentral.com/reg/proquest/factivaupdate.

In the webinar, you'll learn about recent changes to the Companies/Markets tab in Factiva.com. In addition, Kimberly will tell you more about the Beta of Search 2.0 offered by Factiva.com. This is an excellent way to find out how academic libraries can have a direct influence in Factiva product development.

After the Search 2.0 preview concludes, and Factiva has had a chance to evaluate customer feedback, some or all of Search 2.0 will be integrated into various Factiva products. Factiva will also introduce preview versions of other new capabilites throughout 2006.

Thursday, February 09, 2006

New title in Project Muse

Library Trends

Library Trends, issued quarterly and edited by F. W. Lancaster, explores critical trends
in professional librarianship, including practical applications, thorough analyses, and
literature reviews. Both practicing librarians and educators use Library Trends as an
essential tool in their professional development and continuing education. Each issue is
devoted to a single aspect of professional activity or interest. In-depth, thoughtful
articles explore important facets of the issue topic. Every year, Library Trends
provides breadth, covering a wide variety of themes, from special libraries to emerging
technologies. An invaluable resource to practicing librarians and educators, the journal
is an important tool that is utilized for professional development and continuing
education.

E-ISSN: 1559-0682
Print ISSN: 0024-2594

Included in the MUSE 2006 Premium Collection.

For more information about the journal:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/
OR
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lib/

For the Table of Contents:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/toc/lib54.1.html
OR
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lib/toc/lib54.1.html

New Title in JSTOR

Dear JSTOR Participant,

We are pleased to announce that nine new journals have been added to the JSTOR
archive.
Institutions that participate in collections with new journals will be able to
access the new
content immediately.

American Fern Journal (Biological Sciences Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 92 (1910-2002)
Moving wall: 3 years
Publisher(s): American Fern Society
ISSN: 00028444

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (Biological Sciences Collection)
Previous Title: Arctic and Alpine Research (0004-0851)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 34 (1969-2002)
Moving wall: 3 years
Publisher(s): INSTAAR, University of Colorado
ISSN: 15230430

Avian Diseases (Biological Sciences Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 46 (1957-2002)
Moving wall: 3 years
Publisher(s): American Association of Avian Pathologists
ISSN: 00052086

Biological Bulletin (Biological Sciences Collection)
Previous Title: Zoological Bulletin (0898-1051)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 2 (1897-1899); Vols. 1 – 207 (1899-2004)
Moving wall: 1years
Publisher(s): Marine Biological Laboratory
ISSN: 00063185

International Political Science Review / Revue internationale de science
politique (Arts &
Sciences Complement)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 21 (1980-2000)
Moving wall: 5 years
Publisher(s): Sage Publications, Ltd.
ISSN: 01925121

Journal of Crustacean Biology (Biological Sciences Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 20 (1981-2000)
Moving wall: 5 years
Publisher(s): The Crustacean Society
ISSN: 02780372

Journal of Herpetology (Biological Sciences Collection)
Previous Titles: Journal of the Ohio Herpetological Society (0473-9868)
Tri-Monthly Report. Ohio Herpetological Society (1557-122x)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 5 (1958-1966); Vols. 1 – 36 (1968-2002)
Moving wall: 3 years
Publisher(s): Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
ISSN: 00221511

Journal of Parasitology (Biological Sciences Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 88 (1914-2002)
Moving wall: 3 years
Publisher(s): The American Society of Parasitologists
ISSN: 00223395

University of Chicago Law Review (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 68 (1933-2001)
Moving wall: 4 years
Publisher(s): The University of Chicago Law Review
ISSN: 00419494

One journal has been updated to include previously missing issues:

Muqarnas (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
Release Content: Vol. 6 (1989)
Moving wall: 5 years
Publisher(s): Brill Academic Publishers
ISSN: 07322992

The most recent digitized issues have been added to one journal with a moving
wall of zero:

American Journal of International Law (Arts & Sciences I Collection)
Release Content: Vol. 99, no. 3 (July, 2005)
Moving wall: None
Publisher(s): American Society of International Law
ISSN: 00029300

Nineteen titles linked to recent content have also been updated. A full list of
these titles may
be found at http://www.jstor.org/about/recent-issues.html

Although JSTOR seeks to provide every issue from a journal's run, on occasion
there are
issues that we are unable to find. To see which issues are missing, or for
information about
how to help JSTOR complete the archive, please visit JSTOR's Back Issues Needed
page
http://www.jstor.org/about/issues/index.html

More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections can be accessed
at
http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html

Delimited lists of all available JSTOR titles can be accessed at
http://www.jstor.org/about/delimited.lists.html

Participation information for JSTOR collections may be found at
http://www.jstor.org/about/participation.html

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

CSA Illumina Update

An update to the CSA Illumina platform is in process. This update will introduce some modifications designed to better organize the types of research resources available to you on the CSA Illumina platform. Search results now have an initial selection of tabs for "Published Works," "Scholars," and "Web Sites" with additional selections available under "Published Works."

To minimize service interruption, the update changes will be applied to our network of servers one server at a time. This could mean that one user session is performed on a server with current behavior while another is performed on a server with updated behavior. While the display of results may differ from one server to the next, the number of records retrieved will not be affected. We expect this potential variance to last only a few days.

You can see a brief review of the changes and highlights of our new Community of Scholars product at www.csa.com/tutorials/update.htm.

Thank you for you patience while we bring you improved service.

Please email support@csa.com if you have any questions.

Monday, February 06, 2006

Earthscape Update

The latest update to Earthscape includes resources to understand the history of the UN
Global Climate Negotiations, a "State of the Climate 2004" report, a video seminar
"Understanding the Global Warming Forecast" and much more.

Go to www.earthscape.org.

Thursday, February 02, 2006

New Collections at Oxford Reference Online

NEW WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND LITERATURE COLLECTIONS FOR OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE!

2 exciting new Collections are now available to complement the Oxford Reference Online:
Premium Collection (www.oxfordreference.com).

The new Western Civilization Collection includes the following 6 award-winning, and very
substantial, reference works - all fully cross-searchable alongside other Oxford
Reference Online titles:
* Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (4 volumes, 1874 pages)
* Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (3 volumes, 2338 pages)
* Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (4 volumes, 2004 pages)
* The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance (1 volume, 912 pages)
* Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (2 volumes, 1624 pages)
* The Oxford Classical Dictionary (1 volume, 1696 pages)

The new Literature Collection includes the following authoritative reference works -
again all fully cross-searchable alongside other Oxford Reference Online titles:
* The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (4 volumes, 2,280 pages) The Oxford
Companion to Italian Literature (1 volume, 688 pages) The New Oxford Companion to
Literature in French (1 volume, 926 pages) The Oxford Companion to German Literature (1
volume, 968 pages) The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing (1 volume, 560
pages) The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction (1 volume, 464 pages) The Oxford
Companion to Fairy Tales (1 volume, 640 pages) The Oxford Companion to Chaucer (1 volume,
580 pages) The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States (1 volume, 608
pages) * And the following titles are coming soon...
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (5 volumes, 2,800 pages) The Oxford Guide
to Literature in English Translation (1 volume, 680 pages) The Oxford Encyclopedia of
Children's Literature (4 volumes, 1,824 pages) The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century
Literature in English (1 volume, 772 pages) The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature (1
volume, 629 pages)

Grove Art Online Update

We're delighted to announce that the latest update to Grove Art Online is now available
at www.groveart.com.

NEW THEMATIC ESSAY...
A major new thematic essay, Spirituality and Art, traces the spiritual role of art
throughout the world, exploring subjects as various as the pyramids, still-life painting
and contemporary installation art. It also highlights a wealth of Grove Art Online
content beyond artists' biographies such as essays Religion and art, Shamanism, the
Sublime, Jewish art, Native North American art and more. The article is available at
http://www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/spirituality_public.html.

UPDATED ARTICLES...
Over 80 articles have been updated with new bibliography, death dates and textual
revisions to reflect new scholarship in the field of art history. These include articles
on Patrick Caulfield, Pieter Claesz, Al Held, Ed Paschke and Baltazard Solvyns. A full
list of updated articles is available at
http://www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/january2006.html.

OVER 400 NEW IMAGES...
Grove Art Online also continues to expand its image offerings and we have added over 400
new images to the text of major articles such as Ancient Near East, Early Christian and
Byzantine, Etruscan, Helladic, Mesopotamia and Ancient Rome. We now display over 2,500
key images in art history in the text of frequently consulted articles. A selection of
illustrated articles is available at
http://www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/illustrations.html.

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

ACLS History E-Book Project

The ACLS History E-Book Project has just added over 130 books to its collection, bringing the total to 1238. The latest round includes significant increases to the number of titles in Native Peoples of the Americas, Comparative/World, Byzantine/Mediterranean, Asian and Australasian/Oceanian history.As current subscribers, you have access to all of the new books added to the collection.

Cataloging records are available for download, and instructions for obtaining these
records are included below. As you know, it is very important to load the MARC records
into your catalog as soon as possible, because most users become familiar with, and begin to access, the site from the library catalog.

Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to Black

VIVA users have access to Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to Black
History website.

This website was recently updated and presents a vast array of articles,
hundreds of images, and a wide assortment of audio clips,
film clips, and multimedia presentations. The timeline traces two
millennia of black history, and the browse features enable you to
pinpoint the central people, places, topics, and events covered in black
history. Our image and multimedia galleries provide snapshots of
black culture throughout the ages.

You can access the website by opening Britannica Online and scrolling to
the bottom of the homepage where there is a link to Britannica
Spotlights archive (http://search.eb.com/spotlights). The Guide to Black History is the third selection.

Agreement Between Timothy W. Drescher and ARTstor

*Collaborative Agreement Reached Between Timothy W. Drescher and
ARTstor *

Timothy W. Drescher, Ph.D., and ARTstor announced today that they had
reached an agreement to collaborate on the digitization and
distribution through ARTstor of several thousand high quality digital
images from Drescher�s unique archive of photographs of community
murals.

As an independent mural historian and photographer, Timothy Drescher
has been professionally studying, documenting, and campaigning for the
conservation of community murals throughout the United States � in Los
Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and elsewhere- for many years. His
own publications range from the standard study of San Francisco Bay
Area Murals: Communities Create their Muses, 1904-1997 (3rd ed., 1998)
to a thoughtful analysis of �Priorities in Conserving Community
Murals� (a paper presented at a 2003 conference at the Getty
Conservation Institute). His slides and photographs of Chicano and
other community murals have been widely published in works by a wide
range of scholars.

Through this collaboration, ARTstor will digitize several thousand
slides from Timothy Drescher�s archive, as well as selected materials
from the archives of many muralists and other students of community
murals, including especially that of the late Eva Sperling Cockroft,
co-author (with John Pitman Weber and James Cockcroft) of Toward A
People's Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement (1977) (for the 1998
revision of which Drescher wrote the Afterword update) and (with Holly
Barnet-Sanchez), Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals
(1990). Timothy Drescher is curating the selection of images for
digitization, stressing documentation of entire murals as well as
details, contextual establishing photographs, and selected
documentation of mural processes.

In reaching this agreement, Timothy Drescher and Max Marmor, ARTstor�s
Director of Collection Development, expressed their shared enthusiasm
in collaborating to use digital technologies to make these high
quality images of community mural sites more broadly available for
noncommercial educational and scholarly purposes. �I�m delighted that
ARTstor is making these important images available to a large group of
students and scholars using the same usage criteria that muralists
have used interpersonally for over three decades,� comments Drescher.
�Our new collaboration with Timothy Drescher represents an important
milestone in ARTstor's ongoing effort to provide teachers, scholars
and students with high-quality digital images of contemporary art in
all its richness and diversity. Tim Drescher�s images have been widely
consulted by scholars through a range of publications on community
murals, and we are delighted to help make them available now online
for non-commercial use in education and research, in the same spirit
in which muralists themselves have exchanged images over many years,�
adds Marmor.

Timothy W. Drescher has, for many years, played a key role in the
documentation, study and conservation of community murals, including
co-editing Community Murals Magazine from 1976-1987. He works closely
with other scholars and photographers in this field.

ARTstor was created in 2001 as a nonprofit initiative of The Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation, and is now an independent non-profit
organization dedicated to serving education and scholarship in the
arts and the humanities. Currently, more than 520 non-profit
institutions in the U.S. and Canada are participating in ARTstor. A
pilot distribution is underway in the UK and Australia/New Zealand,
and further international availability is being actively explored.

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