Art Collection News

Now in ARTstor: Images from SAHARA architecture archive and Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

ARTstor has recently announced the addition of several new image collections, including nearly 9000 images from SAHARA, the Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive, and 1200 images from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

Browse the ARTstor Digital Image Library by collection to view these images as collections. Detailed descriptions of ARTstor collections are available online.

ARTstor now includes Magnum Photos collection

ARTstor has added more than 73,000 photographs from the Magnum Photos collective to its already large database of over 700,000 images.

Read more about this historic photograph collection on ARTstor's website.

Access the collection at http://library.artstor.org (NU login required).

LibGuide for Art and Architecture History now online

A good place to begin your research is the LibGuide for Art and Architecture History, which includes tips, recommendations, and links for library resources in this subject area.

For LibGuides and subject specialists in other areas, see Research Guides A-Z.

Two flatbed scanners available for use in Art

The Art Collection has added a second scanning station in response to increased demand for flatbed scanners. Both scanning station computers are located in the main Art reading room and equipped with Adobe Web Premium Creative Suite 3, which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat Professional, among other programs. Files can be emailed, printed in color or grayscale, and/or saved to your CD or portable drive. Art opens at 8:30 every day except Sunday, and mornings are the best times to come in if you need a lot of time on the scanner.

Please check ARTstor (http://library.artstor.org) and MDID (http://images.northwestern.edu) to save yourself time and avoid re-scanning something that's already digitized.

Basic instructions are posted next to both scanners. Please contact Lindsay King, Art Collection Public Services Librarian, to request individual or group introductions to scanning and using Photoshop.