Monday, April 5, 2010

New ARTstor collections

Several new collections are available in ARTstor. The Metropolitian Museum of Art contributed 900 images of art and architecture from along the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage route. Bryn Mawr College has made a collection of 8,000 images of architectural monuments and plans of archaeological sites available. You may also find new images of the architecture of Le Corbusier from Dalhousie University. Photographer and art historian, Barbara Anello, contributed 750 images of art, architecture, and culture of Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Morocco.

MS Office 2008 file converter

If you are a Mac user with an older version of MS Office (e.g. 2004 or older) you may find that you are unable to open files created with MS Office 2008. This is especially true if you are trying to use the new batch download feature in ARTstor, which creates PPT 2008 files.

A converter plug-in from Microsoft should resolve these file conversion issues. Follow this link, and download the plug-in at the bottom of the page where it says 'Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0.2'.