The Victoria and Albert Museum has made over 1,000,000 images from their collections available, "including ceramics, fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture and textiles." There's quite a variety of work here, from David Shrigley and Rembrandt, to the care bears and drug jars.
The Elephant Rock (1858) by Linnaeus Tripe, © V&A Images
If you want some background on the Solar Decathlon excitement, where Team California's Refract House is currently in the lead, Simpson Library (SF) has some great resources, including plenty of:
Good luck to Team California in the remaining contests!American History in Video is a huge collection of videos from the likes of PBS and the History Channel, but cooler than those are their digitized old newsreels*. Before many people had TVs in their homes, many got their news via 7-10 minute films (produced by Universal Studios, among others), which were played before movies in local theaters across the U.S. Here's an example of a newsreel clip of Jean Tinguely, and his "weird and wonderful machines... that have no function".
This database is available for free through Nov 15, 2009. Let us know if you like it and we can look into a library subscription.
* You can also find a treasure trove of old Universal Newsreels on the Internet Archive, but American History in Video has the added bonus of offering complete transcripts of every video, making citations a snap.
This new free database from the Pacific Film Archive is fantastic:
Cinefiles contains scanned images of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the PFA Library's extensive collection covering world cinema, past and present.Browse by director, hone in by film title, and check out full pdfs of primary and secondary sources, many of which are rarely available from other periodical databases. There's even a select list of heavy-hitters whose entire filmographies are indexed and available on Cinefiles.
An exhibit of jewelry and other work created by renowned metal artist, Marty Streich, is now on display in the CCA Meyer Library (Oakland). A teacher of metal arts and design at CCA from 1959 to 1999, Marty’s rapport with his students, as well as his teaching methods, influenced many during his 40 years at the College. With a strong mid-20th century aesthetic, his art looks modern and fresh today. This is a great opportunity to view a body of work, much of it never exhibited before.
On view from August 14 to October 9, 2009 | Reception Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. | Exhibit created by the CCA Alumni Council Archive Group
Photo of Marty Streich and students from the CCA Archives
Welcome (back) to CCA everybody! Wondering what the deal is with the libraries, how to get started finding stuff, checking things out, etc?
Hooray! This long-awaited feature is now in Beta! No more downloading images one by one.
For instructions, go here.
*NOTE* This feature only works with PowerPoint 2007. If you are running an earlier version of PowerPoint, never fear! Come visit Xima (xavalos@ccca.edu) in the Simpson Library to get an expander that will allow you to read all PP 2007 files.
We are collecting the first round of submissions for the 2009/10 Library Research Awards this week at Meyer Library (OAK). There will be opportunities again in the Fall and Spring to submit projects eligible for the two $200 prizes (to be awarded Spring 2010), but undergraduate students who researched an original paper, artwork or design project for a Summer class can submit that assignment now.
Download the application (and complete rules) from the library awards page.
See also: past research award winners
For the philosophers among us there is a new(ish) free online resource: PhilPapers, "a comprehensive directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers." You can search and browse an impressive collection of journals on PhilPapers, but it's worth noting that the full-text articles are rarely available directly from the site. Rather, you can find the citations for articles that are out there using PhilPapers and then check CCA and other Bay Area libraries for those journal titles.
If you can't find enough quality coverage of a particular philosophy topic in CCA Libraries' article databases, PhilPapers would be a great next step.
