Every month I will be highlighting an on-line digital image collection. This month's featured collection is the New York Public Library's 'Digital Gallery'. The NYPL Digital Gallery is a searchable database of over 700,000 digital images available for free download.
I have created a new user guide for PowerPoint, downloadable from this link. It is a good introductory guide for using PowerPoint for image presentations. The guide applies to PowerPoint 2007 for PCs.
Now live in ARTstor, you can find 20,000+ new images contributed by the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley. These images are accessible to all the UC campuses through the UC Shared Images collection hosted in ARTstor and are integrated with the ARTstor collection. A big thanks is due to Jason Miller, Director of the Visual Resources Collection in the College of Environmental Design, for making this collection available to the UC community.
The Visual Resources Collection staff will be conducting informal training on the ARTstor image database, PowerPoint, and bspace for UC Berkeley History of Art faculty and graduate students. Click here or on the image to the right for the sign-up form. Please provide your name and e-mail address in the space provided on the form to sign-up for a session.
Our campus ETS is in the process of phasing out slide projectors in the classrooms. It looks as though all projectors will be removed from the classrooms as of Spring 2010. Below is the e-mail they are distributing announcing their plans for the art history classrooms. You can also view this PDF for more information about the changes in their equipment loan program. Starting in Fall 2009 ETS will no longer loan slide projectors. This includes the checkout equipment in DW 44 and the ETS closets. We will also be phasing out slide projectors in classrooms. Here is a list of rooms that will have slide projection for Fall 2009. Moffitt 101, 102, 103, 106 Kroeber 160, 155 VLSB 2050 Dwinelle 155 Wheeler Aud (150) Tan 180 LSA 101 PFA/Hearst Annex 1 Each room should have two working projectors, one dual wireless remote and signage stating as of January 2010 we will no longer be supporting slide projection in classrooms. Over the winter break we will remove them from the above rooms. Clients can contact ETS to have equipment transferred to their department if they choose to continue to use this media.
For a faster and more dynamic way to view image search results in your web browser, try the plug-in from Cooliris. With a simple click, Cooliris converts a static web page of images into a '3-d wall' for quick viewing and selection. The Cooliris plug-in is compatible with Safari, Firefox, or IE and works on lots of different sites such as Google image search, YouTube, Flickr, Hulu, Facebook, Picasa and more.
