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Libraries Offer Access to Digital Image Database
Posted 3/2/2005
The University Libraries recently acquired the ARTstor Digital Library database, giving students, faculty, and staff access to approximately 300,000 visual images and related catalog data.
Initiated at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, ARTstor Digital Library comprises digital images and their corresponding data. As a campus-wide resource, ARTstor is designed to be used by researchers in fields that do not traditionally use images, as well as by art historians.
The collection has been derived from several sources that are the product of collaborations with libraries, museums, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries, and individual scholars. Institutions around the world are joining daily in an effort to create one of the richest visual resources.
Along with more specialized collections of American and Asian art and of master prints, the Image Gallery offers 200,000 images of world art and culture corresponding to the contents of a university slide library, and constructed in response to college teaching needs. The images have been cataloged with subject headings that will be useful to those in the arts and in many other fields. ARTstor software tools enable users to view and analyze images through features such as zooming and panning, and to save groups of images for personal or group uses, as well as for use in lectures and other presentations, either online or offline.
To access ARTstor, choose Art & Architecture from the Libraries Databases page.
For more information, contact Anna Bigazzi at Mortensen Library at 768.4397 or bigazzi@hartford.edu
Faculty who want to take advantage of the special instructor privileges available in ARTstor should contact Bigazzi for password information.
For more information, visit the Libraries' online newsletter, What's New.
Initiated at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, ARTstor Digital Library comprises digital images and their corresponding data. As a campus-wide resource, ARTstor is designed to be used by researchers in fields that do not traditionally use images, as well as by art historians.
The collection has been derived from several sources that are the product of collaborations with libraries, museums, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries, and individual scholars. Institutions around the world are joining daily in an effort to create one of the richest visual resources.
Along with more specialized collections of American and Asian art and of master prints, the Image Gallery offers 200,000 images of world art and culture corresponding to the contents of a university slide library, and constructed in response to college teaching needs. The images have been cataloged with subject headings that will be useful to those in the arts and in many other fields. ARTstor software tools enable users to view and analyze images through features such as zooming and panning, and to save groups of images for personal or group uses, as well as for use in lectures and other presentations, either online or offline.
To access ARTstor, choose Art & Architecture from the Libraries Databases page.
For more information, contact Anna Bigazzi at Mortensen Library at 768.4397 or bigazzi@hartford.edu
Faculty who want to take advantage of the special instructor privileges available in ARTstor should contact Bigazzi for password information.
For more information, visit the Libraries' online newsletter, What's New.
