New Additions to the ARTstor Digital Library: The Image of the Black in Western Art
ARTstor has just released 7,000 new images from their collaboration with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. The joint venture aims to digitize and make accessible approximately 30,000 high quality images from the Du Bois Institute's Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive. Several additional releases are planned for 2007. The images span from pre-history to the present and encompass a wide range of artistic media. The new addition has great potential for faculty and students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Additional information is available at:
www.artstor.org/info/news/content_IBWA_announce.jsp
ARTstor is a digital library of over 500,000 images with an emphasis on art, architecture, and archeology. The images include descriptive information and can be analyzed by panning and zooming; saved into groups for personal or shared use; and used in offline and online presentations. ARTstor can be accessed through the list of databases on the VCU Libraries' Web site.
For more information, please contact VCU art librarians Yuki Hibben ydhibben@vcu.edu or Kristina Keough, keoghkm@vcu.edu.
--Yuki Hibben, Collection Librarian for the Arts - Cabell Library