Scottish Visual Arts Group

Visit to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery Library and the National Museum of Scotland Research Library

2012-01-26T15:12:00.004Z

Visit to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery Library and the National Museum of Scotland Research Library:

Friday 23rd March 2012

Scottish National Portrait Gallery Library 11.30am

http://www.nationalgalleries.org/research/scottish-national-portrait-gallery-library

National Museum of Scotland Research Library 2pm

http://www.nms.ac.uk/collections__research/museum_libraries.aspx

The ARLIS Education and Professional Development Committee has organised a visit to Scottish National Portrait Gallery Library and the National Museum of Scotland Research Library on Friday 23rd March 2012.

This is an opportunity to visit two recently refurbished research libraries in Edinburgh which have re-opened to the public. Time has been built-in between visits to allow you to enjoy lunch in one of Edinburgh’s many cafes/restaurants.

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery Library is the former library of the Society of Antiquaries and the focus of the collection is the history of Scotland and Scottish society, with particular strengths in biographies of Scots and Scottish portraiture.

The National Museum of Scotland Research Library is the largest museum library in Scotland. The collection reflects the strengths and variety of the Museums’ collections and research past and present and covers archaeology, decorative arts, Scottish history and culture, history of science and technology, military history, natural sciences, world cultures and museology.

To book a place on this visit please send your name and email address to Sarah Castle: s.castle@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Information Services Librarian, Information Services: Library

London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, London SE1 6SB.

Tel: 020 7514 6875

For details of further events, see the ARLIS calendar at: http://www.arlis.org.uk/events

JISC calls for our views on digital copyright licensing

2012-01-11T16:46:00.001Z

FE and HE institutions have an opportunity to contribute their views on copyright licensing in the UK as Richard Hooper issues a call for evidence as part of the independent feasibility study into the development of a Digital Copyright Exchange for the UK (DCE).

The feasibility study will be conducted in two parts. The first phase will consider in further detail the issues highlighted in the Hargreaves Review surrounding copyright licensing in and for the digital age, including setting out clear definitions of the roles played by creators, businesses, rights management organisations and consumers.

The second phase will examine and recommend solutions to the issues raised. The establishment of a DCE, a digital market place where licences in copyright content can be readily bought and sold was one of the recommendations made by the Hargreaves Review which would simplify rights clearance in providing access to materials in FE and HE institutions and is considered by some stakeholders to be a strong potential solution.

Universities and FE and HE colleges which participate in the call for evidence are invited to respond to two questions:

whether they agree with the 'Hargreaves Hypothesis' - that the current copyright licensing system is not fit for purpose for the digital age;
whether they agree with the feasibility study's proposed definitions, including the market definition.

The closing date for receipt of evidence is Friday 10 February 2012.

Further details on the call for evidence can be found on the IPO's website.

For further information on the potential impact of the Hargreaves Review on FE and HE see JISC Legal's own guidance

GSA Video Archive

2011-12-06T11:32:00.000Z

The GSA Video Archive is now available to view online and includes 84 videos of public lectures and events organised by The Glasgow Urban Lab, Architecture Friday Lectures, Fine Art Friday Events, and Exhibitions.

You can now watch the entire series of Architecture Friday Lectures from 2010-11 and various Friday Event lectures dating from 2006-11 – including notable talks by architect Steven Holl, artist and kinetic sculptor Susumu Shingu, designer Ben Kelly, artist and GSA graduate Christine Borland, artist and GSA graduate Roddy Buchanan, Urban Lab lecturer Graeme Evans, artist Martha Rosler, and more!

http://www.gsa.ac.uk/visit-gsa/video-archive/

The future of copyright in the digital age and what it means for you

2011-12-01T11:42:00.002Z

The future of copyright in the digital age and what it means for you

Main Library, University of Edinburgh, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8

9LJ

Thursday, 2nd February 2012, 9.30 – 16.30

This important one-day seminar will bring attendees up to date on recent developments in UK copyright law, explaining the implications for all who use information resources in their day to day work, and

what they need to tell colleagues. The seminar will give delegates the confidence to deal with the practical issues which they might encounter, and to answer questions from colleagues on topics as wide

ranging as orphan works, licences (including Creative Commons licences) and the significance of proposed legislative changes (including Hargreaves Review, Digital Economy Act and EU legislation) and recent key legal cases. The seminar will be highly interactive, with a quiz, discussions on scenarios, and two Q&A

sessions.

Attendees are asked to submit questions they would like answering in advance.

This course is aimed at all those who undertake library and information work that involves the use of copyright materials and who are keen to learn about recent developments in copyright law and practice.

Knowledge of copyright principles and law is assumed.

Emily Goodhand and Professor Charles Oppenheim will jointly run the course. Emily is the Copyright & Compliance Officer at the University of Reading. She has a strong online presence as @copyrightgirl on

Twitter and represents the lis-copyseek community as Vice-Chairman of the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA). Charles was until he retired in 2009 Professor of Information Science at Loughborough

University. He is now a copyright consultant, a frequent contributor to lis-copyseek discussions and is both a member of LACA and of the team that advises the JISC on IPR matters.

This course was first held in London in November 2011 and received an unequivocal 'thumbs up'

from those who attended. Comments received included:

"An excellent course especially in the format it was. Pleasantly informal and plenty of opportunity to ask questions"

"A really excellent practical course on issues that occur every day for us – many thanks"

"Excellent speakers, very engaging, entertaining and clear"

"Extremely relevant, an excellent course"

To register your interest in this meeting, reserve a place, or request further details, please email meetings@ukeig.org.uk

Further details are also available via the UKeiG website at

http://www.ukeig.org.uk

New exhibition at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

2011-11-25T09:46:00.001Z

Turner Prize 2011 nominee Martin Boyce will be among the visitors to a new exhibition at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, which showcases work carried out by a pioneering industrial design group.

The exhibition, 'Design Research Unit: 1942-7' opens at DJCAD's Cooper Gallery on Saturday, 19th November. It explores how industrial design developed in the UK, based on new research into the eponymous unit, who were responsible for some of the most important design produced in post-war Britain.

The DRU was one of the first generation of British design consultancies, and brought together expertise in architecture, graphics and industrial design. Formed in London in 1942, the DRU pioneered a model for group practice. By the 1970s it was one of the largest and most established design offices in Europe.

This exhibition is the first to map the history of the group and the currency of their designs. It identifies key examples of their work and documents an approach that was shaped by inter-war developments in artistic discourse and post war trends in industry and communication; in particular the accelerated demand for corporate design.

'Design Research Unit: 1942-72' is a Cubitt Gallery touring exhibition, and Dundee is the only location in Scotland chosen to present it. Curator Michelle Cotton will discuss the significance of the exhibition at a Preview Night on 19th November, while Scottish Turner nominee Martin Boyce, whose atmospheric, sculptural art is inspired by modernist design history, will talk about the DRU's influence on 1st December."

New Scottish Museums search site

2011-11-18T13:20:00.001Z

The University Museums in Scotland have launched a new search site (a union catalogue of sorts) for their collections:

http://www.umissearch.org.uk/

The site is part of CultureGrid with various funders and a broad range of partner universities.

Glasgow International Artists Bookfair 2012

2011-09-28T10:41:00.001+01:00

The Glasgow International Artists Bookfair will again be held in 2012, the dates are Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th April 2012.

For more information check out their website at: http://www.giab.org.uk/

GSA Library launches Creative Research mini-site

2011-09-21T16:27:00.001+01:00

Glasgow School of Art Library has just launched its brand-new mini-site, 'Creative Research'.

"Discover how artists, writers and creative practitioners have used the collections of GSA Learning Resources to inspire, challenge or expand their practice. From interventions into our spaces, to installations amongst our shelves, our collections can be used to explore and challenge artistic, cultural and philosophical themes and

preoccupations.

'Creative Research' brings together a number of case studies, images and artist testimonies to explore how practitioners have used, played with, and deconstructed the Library's spaces and collections."

The resource is freely available online at:

http://www2.gsa.ac.uk/CreativeResearch/creativeresearch_01.htm

Social Media Week Glasgow

2011-09-16T14:55:00.001+01:00

News from EDINA:

Next week is Social Media Week Glasgow (#SMWgla) and EDINA and Edinburgh Beltane, Beacon for Public Engagement are jointly running an event, "Social Media & Academia Panel Session and Surgery" (#socac) which is taking place on Wednesday 21st September 2011 at University of Glasgow Library from 3.30 - 6pm.

The event will focus on the opportunities for using social media in academia, particularly for public engagement where collaboration and communicating research to wider audience can create greater social impact for your work. It is free to attend but registration (via:

http://socialmediaweek.org/event/?event_id=470 ) is essential.

Our panellists are social media enthusiasts using new technologies to engage their audiences in innovative ways:

- Dr Chris Speed, researcher in Digital Architecture, Human Geography and Social Computing, Edinburgh College of Art

- Jen Ross, Associate Lecturer on the MSc in E-Learning programme and part of the Digital Cultures and Education research group at the School of Education, University of Edinburgh.

- Dr Peter Matthews, lecturer in the School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University

- William Nixon, Digital Library Development Manager at University of Glasgow

After the panel session there will be an informal social media surgery - an opportunity to ask more in depth questions, get specific advice or play with social media with lots of experienced people on hand.

The website includes further information and the link to register for the event:

http://socialmediaweek.org/event/?event_id=470

The event is free and open to all though it will be particularly useful for academic and support staff, researchers, library and information professionals, and post graduate students. If you have any questions or problems registering please email: edina@ed.ac.uk. If you are unable to attend in person please do join in the discussions online by keeping an eye on the #socac hashtag or the event page where we will be linking to live blogging and any images and audio of the event.

sent on behalf of:

Nicola Osborne, Social Media Officer for EDINA & Heather Rea, Project Manager for Edinburgh Beltane, Beacon for Public Engagement

11th annual ebooks conference announced

2011-08-11T11:00:00.001+01:00

'Ebooks Unbound' takes place in Glasgow at the National Piping Centre on Thursday 27th October and is the 11th annual ebooks conference.

The theme is new business models and this year the programme features Charles Oppenheim, independent consultant in legal matters, the British Library's Nora Daly and Sophie Rochester of the Literary Platform.

As usual the event will be accompanied by a suppler exhibition and earlybird rates are available until 15th September.

You can secure a place on the SLAINTE website information page or book through the lanyrd.com/cdtqh page and add to your Twitter details.

The Multimedia Information Technology Group Scotland (MmITS) is sponsoring two places for a CILIP Chartership candidate studying under the supervision of a Scottish library and information sector

institution. The cost of the conference fees and travel expenses within Scotland will be met. The successful candidate will be expected to produce a report on the Conference.

Applications, including a supporting statement, should be made by emailing Paulette Hill, MmITS Treasurer, at

Paulette.Hill@scotland.gsi.gov.uk with your full contact details by the deadline of 23rd September 2011.

Government accepts Hargreaves Review recommendations on Copyright

2011-08-03T15:38:00.001+01:00

The Government has just announced it will accept all 10 of the Hargreaves Review recommendations on copyright modernization.

More information can be found at the site of the Intellectual Property Office.

Alastair R Ross sculpture exhibition

2011-07-06T16:03:00.002+01:00

The Alastair R Ross sculpture exhibition at the Glasgow Caledonian University, on level one of the Saltire Centre, will run until 22 July.

Dr Ross’ work can be found worldwide in both public and private collections, as well as galleries. He is a Fellow and past Vice-President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (in 1989 he was awarded the Society’s Sir Otto Beit medal), an Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy, an R.G.I. and an Hon. Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.

For more information on this contemporary sculptor, check the GCU website.

Wildering Phantasies: an Interdisciplinary Conference

2011-07-06T15:58:00.002+01:00

Wildering Phantasies: an Interdisciplinary Conference devoted to the Pre-Raphaelites will take place on 7-10 July 2011 , at the D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, University of Dundee, and will bring together researchers from a range of backgrounds to explore the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and assess their legacy across several media.

It includes an exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, with sketches taken from Dundee University's own holdings and the surrounding area. In addition, there will be an opportunity to see D.G. Rossetti's Dante's Dream, the finest Pre-Raphaelite painting in Scotland, works by Millais and Joseph Paton at the newly renovated McManus Gallery as well as other Pre-Raphaelite gems, including the recently restored St. Salvador's church, designed by George Fredrick Bodley

CILIPS North East Branch event

2011-06-23T09:08:00.001+01:00

The next CILIPS North East Branch event (held jointly with Grampian

Information) will be 'By George she's got it - enhancing and improving

access through the migration of digital objects.' This presentation

will discuss the recent migration of the George Washington Wilson

photographic archive to the University of Aberdeen's digital asset

management software.

As one of Scotland's premier photographers George Washington Wilson and

his firm captured images not only of Aberdeen and the North East but

the whole of Scotland and most of England, as well as parts of Wales

and Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, Morocco, the South of Spain, and

(especially) colonial South Africa and Australia. Thousands of those

images are now available for all to see at http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/.

The project has enhanced the level of detail visible in the images

themselves and the basic metadata created when the archive was first

digitised. This twilight session will include a look at images from the

collection as well as the crosswalks which have enabled us to increase

the granularity of our metadata while still allowing it to be harvested

in Dublin Core.

This free event will take place in the Seminar Room at the Queen Mother

Library on the University of Aberdeen's Old Aberdeen Campus (see

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/maps/old-aberdeen.php) at 16:00 on Tuesday

28 June 2011.

In Conversation at the Edinburgh City Libraries Reference Library

2011-06-17T15:59:00.002+01:00

Edinburgh Reads is delighted to present Frances Fowle talking about her book, on the Scottish Art Dealer Alexander Reid – Van Gogh’s Twin - in conversation with Hil Williamson on Thursday 14 July at 6.30pm in the Edinburgh City Libraries Reference Library.

Frances Fowle is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, and Senior Curator of French art at the National Gallery of Scotland. She curated the Impressionism and Scotland exhibition in 2008 and Van Gogh and Britain in 2006.

Alexander Reid, often a stubborn and difficult individual but a ‘prince among dealers’ brought Impressionism to Scotland as well as championing the Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists. Frances tells the fascinating story of his life, including his friendship with artists such as Whistler and Van Gogh.

Booking for this event is essential. Please contact readerdevelopment@edinburgh.gov.uk or phone 0131 242 8100.

Rare books and special collections at GSA

2011-06-17T15:22:00.001+01:00

Following a major project to audit and recatalogue its rare books and special collections, the Glasgow School of Library Art is now digitizing selected titles and making them available on the Internet Archive. Titles include 3 volumes of Bairei Kono’s bird drawings, early zoological hand-coloured plates, a 16^th century Palladio volume, and the complete 2 volumes of the Scottish Art Review. Further titles will follow over the coming weeks at http://www.archive.org/details/glasgowschoolofart

Women's Library Suffrage Collection online

2011-06-14T09:58:00.002+01:00

A unique collection relating to British women’s fight for the vote 100 years ago has been revealed online today through the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS).

The digitised material represents a selection of the vast collections housed at the Women’s Library at London Metropolitan University, and includes posters, photographs, postcards, badges, and other memorabilia relating to the British suffrage movement.

Particularly remarkable and moving items from the online collection include a photograph of a crowd attacking suffragettes, and the purse that was held by Emily Wilding Davison at the Epsom Derby in 1913, when she stepped in front of the horse of King George V, which resulted in her death four days later.

The Women’s Library is the oldest and largest collection of women’s history in the UK and was founded in 1926 as the Library of the London Society for Women’s Service, a non-militant organisation led by leading suffragist, Millicent Fawcett. It is now held by the London Metropolitan University and is an internationally acclaimed specialist library, archive, and museum with collections that have broadened since its inception to include a wide range of subjects which focus on the lives of women in Britain. The collection now consists of 60,000 books and pamphlets, 3500 periodical titles, over 450 archives, and 5000 museum objects.

The collection of valuable documents, from the Women's Library and the Parliamentary Archives, which tell the story of the women’s suffrage movement has also recently been selected as one of twenty collections to represent the outstanding heritage of the United Kingdom on the UNESCO UK Memory of the World Register.

The online selection provides a taster of these extensive collections, and adds to the national repository of over 120,000 digitised images available through VADS from a range of collections across the UK. In particular, this latest addition complements the existing online collection of Women’s Library Suffrage Banners, which includes almost 250 banners and associated artworks which have been made available online for free use in education and research.

Books in Focus at the SNGMA

2011-06-06T10:33:00.001+01:00

Books in Focus at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Each session is devoted to artists books held in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. July’s session will focus on books by the German surrealist Hans Bellmer, whilst in August we will continue the surrealist theme by examining books by Salvador Dalí. The final session in September will focus on Joan Miró.

Hans Bellmer

Thursday 7^th July 2011, 11.30am -12.30pm, Modern Two

This session will focus on books by the German-born Surrealist artist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975), who documented the creation of his articulated ‘Doll’ with sketches and photographs in a number of French and German publications, and also produced illustrations for Surrealist erotica.

Salvador Dalí

Thursday 4^th August 2011, 11.30am – 12.30pm, Modern Two

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was a central figure in the early years of the Surrealist movement, and contributed images to a number of Surrealist texts in the 1930s and 1940s. Amongst the books examined in this session will be the influential prose poem Les Chants de Maldoror by Lautréamont, illustrated by Dalí, which was cited as a major inspiration by the Surrealists.

Joan Miró

Thursday 1^st September 2011, 11.30am – 12.30pm, Modern Two

The Catalan artist Joan Miró settled in Paris in 1918, and from 1924 onwards collaborated and exhibited with the Surrealist group. This session will include the 1958 book Constellations (reproducing prints by Miró, and accompanied by a text by André Breton), and a number of other publications featuring the familiar motifs of his poetic imagery.

There are only 10 spaces available in each session, so booking is essential – please ring 0131 624 6268 or email gmainfo@nationalgalleries.org to book your place.

Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show 2011

2011-05-27T10:11:00.002+01:00

Edinburgh College of Art 2011 Degree show will open on Saturday 11 June and continues until 19 June.
Glimpses of the installations underway promise a particularly strong year! For more information on the ECA Degree Show 2011 follow this link to the ECA website.

Yale Center for British Art launches new website

2011-05-23T09:26:00.000+01:00

The Yale Center for British Art has announced the launch of its new website which offers online access to the collections of the Center through a seamless cross-collections-search that retrieves works of art, rare books, and reference materials.

Through the website and collections search, the Center now offers publication-quality images of all its art objects in the public domain. Images from the Center’s collections are now free to download with no restrictions on use.

Royal College of Art makes Special Collections publicly available

2011-05-06T11:11:00.001+01:00

Two of the Royal College of Art’s most important collections have been made available to the general public through a new digitisation project which is accessible through the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS).

The Record of Student Work is a rare collection, containing over 30,000 slides of student work, which dates back to the 1960s and includes early work by notable College alumni including David Hockney, Tracey Emin, Ridley Scott and Thomas Heatherwick. A comprehensive and unique resource, it provides insight into the early creative processes of some of Britain’s best-known artists and designers, usually captured as they complete their postgraduate studies with installation shots from students’ degree shows.

The nature of the collection - comprised mainly of 35mm slides and usually locked in filing cabinets in the RCA library - has meant that many of these images have never been published. Now however, a three-year scanning project has resulted in over 5,000 of the most notable images from the collection being made publicly available for the first time.

The earliest slides (1960-1978) represent ad hoc attempts by individual departments to record their students’ work. Fashion and Textiles are especially well represented with images of the work of Ossie Clark and Zandra Rhodes among many others. However, from 1979, at the instigation of Christopher Frayling, then Professor of General Studies, Jan Murton, slide curator, and photographer Barry Marsden, the Royal College of Art degree show was comprehensively photographed and catalogued across all departments for the first time. The approach continues to this day, although slides were replaced with digital photography in 2003.

Notable alumni whose work is represented in this selection include: David Hockney, Zandra Rhodes, Chris Ofili, Tracey Emin, Julien Macdonald, Philip Treacy, Orla Kiely, Harold Offeh and Thomas Heatherwick. These images are a representative sample of the entire collection 1960-2002 and all have been scanned from the original 35mm slides. Senior tutors from each department worked with the Special Collections Manager to identify key students’ work. Once a student was selected, every available slide of their work was digitised to provide a comprehensive picture of their work.

In addition to the Record of Student Work, over a thousand works from the Royal College of Art Collection of Paintings have been digitised and are also being made available through VADS. The Royal College of Art Collection is an invaluable resource of works that represent significant developments in British painting from the middle years of the 20th century to the present. The collection is made up of works donated by Painting graduates and staff. Examples include works by: Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious, Paul Nash, John Piper, Frank Auerbach, John Minton, Peter Blake, David Hockney, Chris Ofili, Tracey Emin, Dinos Chapman and Sophie von Hellermann.

Dr Paul Thompson, Rector of the Royal College of Art said: “These are indeed remarkable resources. Those selected from the Record of Student Work have been chosen not only for their subsequent eminence and reputation, but also for embodying particular trends, or producing especially idiosyncratic or revealing work. In both collections, the works have considerable research value and represent over half a century of work here at the RCA”

Neil Parkinson, Special Collections Manager added: “The College believes in making the images available as widely as possible on a non-commercial basis for the purposes of learning, teaching and research. The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS), which collates images from the HE sector for educational use, shares this aim, which makes them a natural partner for delivery of our image collections to the widest possible audience.”

The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) is a Research Centre within the Library and Learning Services Department at the University for the Creative Arts, and specialises in the management, storage, presentation, and archiving of digital images and other arts-based assets. VADS was founded to provide services to the academic community 14 years ago, and since that time it has built an online collection of more than 120,000 images of rare and unique collections from libraries, museums, and archives in universities and colleges across the UK, which are made available online for the purposes of learning, teaching, and research at: www.vads.ac.uk

View the collections online at:

Royal College of Art Record of Student Work

Royal College of Art Collection

Call for proposals to host the engage Resource

2011-05-05T11:37:00.004+01:00

engage is currently looking to re-house the engage Resource. The Resource is a collection of material about visual arts and gallery education dating from the 1970s to the present. Items are donated regularly by engage members and others in the sector. There are currently approximately 1200 items in the Resource, which is at present hosted by the Stuart Hall Library at Iniva.

engage is seeking an organisation to host the Resource which is able to:

Grant access to the collection to the public, including engage’s members
Catalogue the collection
Present the Resource as a coherent body of material
Take an active role in acquiring materials for the Resource
Work with engage to promote the Resource and programme events which will complement it.

If you wish to submit a proposal, please download, read and respond to the points set out in the guidance document:
http://www.engage.org/downloads/Resource_proposal_2011.doc

The deadline for proposals is noon on Tuesday 31 May 2011.

Please contact info@engage.org or 020 7729 5858 for further information.
[Paula's note: the homepage URL www.engage.org does not seem to be working at the moment!]

Slide Librarian 2.0 : Image Curating in the Digital Age

2011-05-02T12:04:00.004+01:00

This half day event, at the London College of Fashion on Tuesday 14th June, organised by the ARLIS UK Visual Resources Committee, will explore the changing role of the slide librarian in the digital age. Whilst there are legal barriers to the use of images in education and the museum sector, there are no such technological barriers and it is increasingly difficult for librarians and image curators to support their users within this context. This event will look at positive ways in which we can use technology to provide images to our users.
Speakers will include a slide librarian, a copyright specialist and an academic specialising in eLearning. The afternoon will also include a workshop session using online tools and resources for image management.
If you require further information contact Clare Hemmings at ch1@soton.ac.uk

SLIC Innovation & Development Fund

2011-03-25T10:56:00.004Z

The SLIC Innovation and Development Fund Call is now open for bids.

Full details and an application pack are available here.

The bid is open to SLIC members and in a change from previous operation will be open all year.

CILIPS Conference announcement

2011-03-25T10:07:00.003Z

CILIPS has announced that its conference, being held at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow on 7th & 8th June 2011 will feature a special FE/HE strand on 7th June. The programme has been devised by Kathy Kearney (CILIPS) and Jill Evans (SCURL).

The speakers include:

Rachel Bruce (JISC) on resource discovery

Craig Mills (JISC RSC-NE) discussing 'Create and Convert'

Karen Stevenson (Glasgow University) introducing the mobile apps strategy

Carol Walker (JISC RSE Scotland NE) looking at library use of QR codes

JISCLegal will offer a workshop on 5 copyright tips for making online life easier

Ellen Collins (Research Information Network) will discuss the recent RIN publication 'Social media: a guide for researchers' and this will be followed by case studies from two researchers from QMU, Claire Seaman and Dr Ian Elliott

Owen Stephens (Open University) will look at mashing libraries to build communities

In addition on the same day you can hear new CILIP Chief Executive Annie Mauger discuss 'Defining our professional future'.

For more information and to book at special earlybird rates follow this link.

Edinburgh College of Art launches new Catalogue

2011-01-20T11:06:00.002Z

Edinburgh College of Art Library have launched their new improved library catalogue interface. The new interface has a fresher, cleaner appearance and incorporates several new and very useful features:

enhanced and improved search functions
book jacket images
links to book previews, reviews and related books (using Google Books)
the facility to add books to your own personal list for future reference
the facility to save searches and run them again at a later date.

To take a look at the new catalogue, log in as a guest to the eca portal, and follow the link to the catalogue on the Quick Links menu.

National Portrait Gallery Heinz Archive & Library joins COPAC

2011-01-17T11:20:00.002Z

The library holdings of the National Portrait Gallery Heinz Archive & Library are now live on COPAC.
The NPG's Library supports the Gallery's research needs, with strengths in British portraiture, history, and biography.
The National Portrait Gallery has collected library materials since the founding of the Gallery in 1856, and the Heinz Archive & Library now holds approximately 35,000 books and exhibition catalogues, runs of 150 periodical titles (70 currently received), catalogues from sales featuring portraits from 1866 to the present, a collection of rare books, and some dissertations and theses.
To search for holdings of the NPG on COPAC, go to the main search tab and choose National Portrait Gallery from the drop down list.
COPAC is a free service accessible to all.

New online catalogue: UoG Art History Resource Centre

2010-12-14T14:58:00.011Z

The University of Glasgow Art History Resource Centre has launched a new online catalogue using LibraryThing.

As an adjunct to the outstanding resources available within Glasgow University Library, the History of Art Resource and Postgraduate Centre serves the study needs of undergraduates, postgraduates, research and teaching staff within the School of Culture and Creative Arts.

The centre is administered by professional librarians who are always prepared to give advice and guidance on bibliographic matters or other resource requirements. They administer a collection of 4,500 books, selected periodical holdings, over 15,000 exhibition and gallery catalogues and over 82,000 teaching slides.

National Collecting Scheme Scotland

2010-12-01T12:14:00.003Z

The National Collecting Scheme Scotland is an initiative of the Scottish Arts Council that supports public collections across Scotland to acquire and present challenging contemporary visual art. The initiative also seeks to enable curators within those organisations to extend their knowledge and understanding of contemporary visual arts, and to develop their engagement with the visual arts sector in Scotland.

Find out more about the NCSS scheme and its acquisitions at the University of Glasgow website and at the archived Scottish Arts Council site.

Edinburgh's "Capital Collections" website launches

2010-11-23T12:02:00.005Z

The Capital Collections website has recently launched as an image library of Edinburgh City Libraries and Museums and Galleries. It contains "images of material from the collections of Edinburgh's City Libraries and Museums and Galleries. You can discover the historical and cultural life of Edinburgh, Scotland and the Scots through this growing image library which includes a wonderful selection of photographs, paintings, engravings and objects ranging from toys to ceramics, silverware and material from the history collections." Images are downloadable for personal/educational purposes, and some are also available to purchase.