Copyright and the Creative Industries: a guide

The Copyright Licensing Agency have produced a booklet on Copyright and the Creative Industries which can be accessed here:

http://www.cla.co.uk/data/corporate_material/copyright_and_the_creative_industries_booklet_may_2012_for_web.pdf

For more information about the Copyright Licensing Agency, see

http://www.cla.co.uk/about/who_we_are/

News from SUNCAT

SUNCAT - Serials Union CATalogue for the UK research community:

SUNCAT are delighted to welcome Glasgow School of Art as a new SUNCAT contributing library.  This addition brings the total number of contributing libraries to 91, plus the CONSER database, the ISSN register and the Directory of Open Access Journals.

The Library of the Glasgow School of Art has one of the finest art, design and architecture collections in the UK, reflecting the School's long history. The School joins a growing number of art institutions on SUNCAT, including:

  - British Film Institute

  - Courtauld Institute of Art

  - Edinburgh College of Art (as part of the University of Edinburgh)

  - The National Art Library

  - Royal Institute of British Architects

  - Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

  - Scottish National Gallery Research Library

  - Tate Library (Tate Britain)

  - University of the Arts

For a full list of the 91 libraries contributing to SUNCAT, please go

to:

http://www.suncat.ac.uk/description/contributing_libraries.html

For further information and news about SUNCAT please see the website at http://www.suncat.ac.uk, the SUNCAT Blog at http://www.suncatblog.blogspot.com/,

SUNCAT on Twitter (@suncatteam), or contact the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk

Glasgow School of Art Library refurbishment news

From 8th June until 15th September  inclusive, the Glasgow School of Art Library is planning a refurbishment of the ground floor of the main Library. That means there will be no access to borrow or use the bulk of the Library's collections during this period.    

GSA Library will continue to process SCONUL applications, but applicants should be advised services will be reduced.   

All digital collections will continue to be fully available over the summer but only a very limited selection from the print collection, please advise your users to consult the Library website for full details before visiting. http://prism.talis.com/gsa/ 

For further information please read this blog post:

http://gsalibnews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/library-refurbishment-information.html

National Gallery London puts its Archive online

The National Gallery in London has placed its Archive catalogue online.  Feedback on the look and feel of it has been requested.

You can search the Archive at: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/archive/search

There is also a short survey about the National Gallery Archive, and its new online search tool.

So that they can improve their service, do consider completing the survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/archive-search-tool-survey

Thank you!

Slide collections as archives

Archive Interventions is an Art History and Visual Studies PhD project and blog at the University of Manchester, looking at slide collections as valuable archives.

This coincides with an increasing interest across the Art Libraries Society UK membership list in the value of archiving slide collections and not disposing of them as apparently obsolete. 

It will be interesting to track this project and see what can be learned from it.

Thanks to the ACADI list for raising awareness of this project:

http://archiveinterventions.wordpress.com/

http://archiveinterventions.wordpress.com/about/