Assessing and comparing databases for art history

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-42
Author(s):  
Svein Engelstad
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Electronic Resources ◽  
University Library

Working in a large university library provides daily challenges in giving appropriate advice to students and researchers when they search for art history material. One of the biggest of these is how to choose the best databases to use, and the survey described below aimed to provide better information on which to base decisions about which the library should subscribe to. Many libraries face the same problems. What is really covered in the different databases? And how do they communicate with other library systems and electronic resources?

Accessibility of Internet Based Electronic Resources: A Content Analysis of Public and Private University Library Websites in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Shamima Yesmin .
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Private University ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Electronic Resources ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
University Library ◽  
Library Websites ◽  
The University

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the websites of university libraries to ascertain that libraries are effectively utilizing their respective websites to provide easy access to all electronic resources available in the library. The objective was also to a represent a comparative analysis between public and private university library websites regarding the presence of electronic resources with their easy access via the internet. For the purpose of this study, a research instrument in the form of comprehensive checklist of eighteen e-resources was developed to evaluate their accessibility in the websites of public and private university libraries. Twenty university library websites, comprised of ten top-ranked public and ten top-ranked private universities in Bangladesh, were studied for data collection using content analysis method. The findings demonstrate that the presence of e-resources on selected university library websites is still in its early stage, but it has been growing rapidly. The private university library websites are ahead of public university libraries in terms of the integration of web-resources. It is hoped that the findings of this paper will serve to assist the University librarians and other similar institutions in choosing, selecting and acquiring the most appropriate format of information resources, and making these available to their websites, which will both satisfy the needs of their library users and fit within their library budget.

Riding the Waves of Change for Electronic Resources at the Library and Learning Commons, Monash University Sunway Campus

2013 ◽  
pp. 195-209
Author(s):  
Sossamma K. T. George
Keyword(s):  
Resource Discovery ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Electronic Resources ◽  
Web Resource ◽  
University Library ◽  
Learning Commons ◽  
Discovery Service ◽  
The Waves

This chapter contributes to the topic of electronic resources. The purpose of this chapter is to share with fellow professionals the experience and challenges that the Library and Learning Commons, Monash University Sunway Campus Malaysia faced in progressing electronic resources at the Sunway campus. It discusses two major actions undertaken, namely (1) the implementation of an e-book acquisitions policy and (2) the implementation of Search, a Web resource discovery service undertaken in collaboration with Monash University Library Australia. The intent of the chapter is to share the experience of the Information Resources Section that undertook to implement these actions as part of the Section’s annual development plan for 2011 and 2012. The ensuing initiatives to realize the action plans and the progress made are discussed here. More importantly, the outcomes and the learning experiences are shared, in the understanding that by sharing, they contribute to enriching the field and empowering and challenging ourselves to progress further.

The Library of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Pulford
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
University Library ◽  
The University

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts is acknowledged as one of the finest small art galleries in Europe. It has a richly resourced library which functions both as a curatorial library for the Barber’s curators and as part of the University of Birmingham’s network of site libraries. Students of art history thus benefit from the combined resources of a specialist art gallery library and a major university library. The Barber also houses a visual resources library, music library and coin study room.

Selected resources on Native American art

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-38
Author(s):  
Marilyn Russell ◽  
Thomas E. Young
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
American Indian ◽  
American Art ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
Electronic Resources ◽  
Native American Art ◽  
University Library ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Indian Nations

This review of selected paper and electronic resources on Native American art describes what is available at the Haskell Indian Nations University Library and Archives in Lawrence, Kansas; the Institute of American Indian Arts Library and Archives in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the H.A. & Mary K. Chapman Library and Archives at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and the Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives at the Heard Museum Library in Phoenix, Arizona. These four institutions develop and maintain resources and collections on Native American art and make the information they contain about indigenous groups available not only to their users and other scholars but also to the wider world.

Art journals and monographs in Open Access – a collaborative effort

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Alexandra Büttner
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Art History ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Management Platform ◽  
University Library ◽  
Organisational Support ◽  
Art Historians

Since 2006 Heidelberg University Library has been encouraging the idea of Open Access in the field of art history. Today, as part of the Specialized Information Service for Art it offers art historians from all over the world, through the platform arthistoricum.net, three different services for e-publishing in Open Access: (1) ARTDok – a digital repository for single publications and review articles, (2) ARTJournals – a publication management platform for e-journals and (3) ART-Books – a platform for monographs and edited volumes. Apart from providing scholars with software to help them publish professional peer-reviewed open access articles, the library also supports art historians in the transition from print to e-publications by offering them the technical infrastructure as well as organisational support. The service at Heidelberg University Library has shifted towards engaging more closely with academics and setting into practice their individual needs, leaving them to focus on research and contents. These newly developed processes based on a collaborative effort of art librarians and scholars place an important emphasis on the accessibility and provision of art historical research data in Open Access.

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