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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:
- From the library homepage, under Catalogue
click on Search by keyword.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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