Coming in September - Visual Resources Online

Art Image Database

AMICO, or the Art Museum Image Consortium, is an image database of more than 100,000 paintings, sculptures, photographs and art objects held by museums and art galleries in North America. Institutions contributing images include the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Art Institute of Chicago, Asia Society Museum, The Cleveland Museum of Art, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, J. Paul Getty Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, National Gallery of Canada, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art.

York users can locate images doing keyword searches in the library catalogue on a creator's name, title of the artwork, type of material or technique, time period or place of origin. The images have been cleared for non-profit educational use and so search results can be downloaded, stored in "notebooks" and used later to support classroom activities and other types of academic presentations.

Video Streaming

The Sound and Moving Image Library (SMIL) has been negotiating with educational media distributors to acquire copies of popular course-related video titles as video streaming files. To date, some vendors have agreed to terms which will make the material accessible to any registered library user, located either on or off-campus.

The conversion of about 70 titles is almost complete. Subject coverage is diverse and includes a number of titles in the humanities and social sciences, such as Animated Neuroscience, Eqbal Ahmad and the Partitioning of India, Marcus Garvey, Science and Gender, The Sexual Brain, Speaking Shakespearean Verse and A Writer's Work with Toni Morrison - and many more.

How to locate and view digitized videos

Find a list of videos by doing a keyword search in the Library catalogue:

1. From the library homepage, under Catalogue click on Search by keyword.
2. When the Keyword Search screen appears, you select "electronic video" in the item type box, then click the Search catalogue button. A list of all available titles appears.
3. To view the video online, click the View button of the title you want from the list, which takes you to the catalogue record for that item.
4. Scroll down the list of items until you see the electronic address (URL) of the video, and click on the link. You will be asked for your library ID and PIN number. Once you have authenticated yourself using your ID and PIN, the video starts in Windows Media Player (sorry, not available for Mac computers).
   

The electronic videos are also accessible by title, author and call number search if you already know what you are looking for. The electronic address (URL) for the video is linked to the catalogue search record.

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