ARTstor: Training course, 11 July 2011

Where: South Training Room, Berkeley Library
When: 11 July 2011, from 9.45am
Who: For all TCD Library and Academic staff with an interest in the area.
To book a place, please forward your name to Arlene Healy, arhealy@tcd.ie, by Friday, July 1st, specifying the sessions you wish to attend (see programme below).

ARTstor is a subscription based resource and access has been funded under the Irish Research eLibrary (IReL) initiative for the past number of years. This training session will provide an opportunity for TCD members to explore how it can support teaching and research, and ensure its benefits are fully exploited.

Sian Evans, a trainer from ARTstor, is visiting Ireland in early July.

Sian will provide a training session in TCD Library for members of subscribing Irish institutions, on July 11th, in the South Training Room, Berkeley Library.

Programme:
(Booking: arhealy@tcd.ie, by Friday, July 1st, specifying the sessions you wish to attend. )

Registration - 9.45
1) 10.00-11.00 – Introduction to ARTstor (Library and Academic staff)
11.00-11.30 – break
2) 11.30-13.00 – Teaching with ARTstor (Library and Academic staff)
Lunch 13.00-14.00 (attendees to make own arrangements)
3) 14.00-15.00 – ARTstor for information professionals (Library staff)

ARTstor - an update and training session

Coming soon - Training day in TCD, July 11th, 2011, on ARTstor. More details later.


The ARTstor Digital Library

The ARTstor Digital Library provides more than one million images with tools for teaching and research.

Its collections comprise contributions from museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world (read the full list here: http://www.artstor.org/collections).

The collections encompass 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 more (find sample subject guides here: http://www.artstor.org/subjectguides).

As well as advanced searching, sorting, viewing and sharing options, ARTstor can also facilitate you to:

Organize
Print and save images and related data to other hardware (e.g. CD, memory stick, hard drive)

Organize images into groups
Upload and manage personal images and sound files in ARTstor

Download image groups for use in presentation software such as PowerPoint, KeyNote, and ARTstor's Offline Image Viewer (OIV)

Export citations for images or image groups into EndNote or a text file

Generate URL links to images and groups for integration with local course management software and sharing with students

Newly acquired TCD Library e-resources

The latest listing of our new e-resources with details of their coverage is to be found on the Library Information Resouces page.

Newly acquired databases:
Oxford Music Online/Grove Music Online
State Papers Online (Part One 1509-1603)
British Biographical Archive Online
The Guardian/Observer Historical Archive
ScienceDirect Backfiles
19th Century British Library Newspapers
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection

Also
New subscriptions to:
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
ARTstor

The EIO database is on trial until Dec. 12th.

ARTstor help wiki page

From September 2008 you can find Digital Library and OIV help documentation, as well as training materials and video demos all in one place — the ARTstor Help Wiki.

ARTstor blog

For users of ARTstor - don't forget you can get news and archived announcements on the ARTstor blog

ARTstor instructional videos on youtube.com

ARTstor has uploaded a few instructional videos onto youtube which may be of some help.

How to set up an account:



and how to download images to a powerpoint presentation:

ARTstor and Internet Explorer

We now have access to ARTstor in TCD.

If you have any problems using ARTstor with Windows Internet Explorer, please ensure your Java - General - Network settings are set to the tcdproxy. For step-by-step instructions on how to do this see the ISServices page on Java.

Mozilla Firefox can handle the java issues and there's no need to change anything in that browser.

A link to ARTstor from the databases page will be added soon.

Regards
Clíona