Welcome to ArtInformer

Welcome to the ArtInformer blog for S. L. A. University (Artinformer.blogs.smallliberalarts.edu), created and managed by Chris Guerra. I’m a Librarian and Visual Resources Director for the Studio Art Program. This blog was created to keep the faculty informed and up-to-date on new publications, online resources, and local event. If you have other questions you’d like to see answered on this blog or answered privately, please email me at cguerra@smallliberalarts.edu, or call me at 860-888-8888. 

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Some of the many things that we can assist faculty, staff, and students with are:

We can explain Image use policies for all images cataloged by the University. These images are open for students and faculty to use for academic purposes. We also assist students and faculty to completing the correct citation for the images provided.

Our institution caters to interdisciplinary research and multilingual viewers, with easy access to images that are cataloged as like electronic journals and books. We cataloged images for adaptive reuse with library description methods and search systems.

Assist faculty and students to take digital images of their studio work, compiling a catalog of your work and writing Artists Statements for their Professional and Academic portfolios.  Additionally we help faculty and students in responding to "calls for artist" RFQ’s and RFP’s in a professional manner. We also share a master list of all  "calls" in the area.

Give tutorials in advance searching skills in using visual research databases such as: Use Research Libraries Group (RLG), Digital Image Access Project (DIAP), Museum Education Site Licensing Project (MESL), Consortium for interchange of Museum Information (CIMI), Art Consortium (AMICO), and Flicker Commons.  To arrange for a library instruction session for your class, or to explore creative ways to teach both course content and subject resources for research, you may contact me at cguerra@smallliberalarts.edu.

References:

Bergstrom, T. A Content Analysis of Visual Resources Collection Web Sites. Art Documentation 28, no. 1 (2009): 29–33.

Dannebaum, Claire. Seeing the big picture: integrating visual resources for art libraries. Art Documentation 27, 1 (2008):13-17

Hamma, Kenneth. Public domain art in an age of easier mechanical reproducibility. Art Libraries Journal 31, no. 3 (2006): 11.

Lassonde, Élise and Danielle Léger. Images as an integral part of our documentary heritage: posters and prints at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Art Libraries Journal 34 no1 (2009): 27-34