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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:34:38 -0400 (EDT) We are pleased to announce that the Columbia Image Bank -- which has been available through our local Luna Insight System for the past several years -- is now accessible as a hosted collection in ARTstor (http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio4269375). Columbia users are now able to search the Image Bank either as a separate ARTstor collection or in combination with ARTstor's complete collections, which currently include more than one million images. Columbia Image Bank consists of some 66,000 art and architecture images, about half licensed for Columbia use from the vendor Saskia, Ltd., and half from teaching and research collections created by Columbia's Visual Media Center (http://www.learn.columbia.edu/). The Visual Media Center will continue to add content to our hosted ARTstor collection on a quarterly basis. To search Columbia Image Bank separately in ARTstor, click "Go" in the upper right-hand corner on the ARTstor homepage, then select "Columbia University Image Bank" from the search drop-down menu. If "Columbia University Image Bank" is not selected, the search defaults to "All Collections" which retrieves results from both Columbia's hosted collections and the full ARTstor database. We urge you to encourage patrons to switch to our hosted ARTstor collection as soon as possible. Our local Luna Insight database will continue to be available only until December 2009, after which it will be retired. ARTstor User Services will conduct a training session in Butler 203 on Friday, Oct. 9th, 10 – 11:30 AM. Come learn more about the Image Bank and how to find and use images in ARTstor. Additional information to follow. Robbie Blitz <>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<> |