According to a recent post in The Wall Street Journal, the Obamas are changing the art in the White House. Choosing art for the White House is the prerogative of every first couple, and the Obamas are choosing more modern art than previous presidents. The Obamas are also choosing work by diverse groups of artists.
To read more about their choices, visit the article at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203771904574175453455287432.html
Looking to unwind with a book over the break? Want to catch up on your pleasure reading? Then look at the library’s Browsing Collection,which is available on the last row of shelves by the windows. It contains a wide variety of popular fiction and nonfiction titles. Ask the reference librarian for a suggestion if you’re not sure what to get! Stop by the reference desk or email Sally Fortin at sfortin@scad.edu
Love legos but think you’re too old for them? Think again! The LEGO Group is selling lego kits that you can purchase to recreate famous buildings. The Guggenheim Museum and Falling Water, two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s creations, are available. To read more, point your browser to:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/05/20/frank-lloyd-wright-l.html
Thanks to Jennifer Clark for contributing this story!
Already a fan of Zotero for organizing and citing your research? Then check out Zotero 2.0! This upgrade to Zotero will include free backup of research and will allow users to personalize their materials by creating and sharing a biography or CV. Users will also be able to find Zotero accounts by discipline and will be able to follow other scholars.
For more information on Zotero 2.0, point your browser to the following:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/news/zotero-20-is-here/
To learn how to use any instance of Zotero, ask the reference librarian! Email Sally Fortin at sfortin@scad.edu, or stop by the library.
The New York Times has just launched Lens, a blog of photography, video and visual journalism. According to the NYT, Lens is “a photojournalism blog that intends to present some of the most interesting visual and multimedia reporting: in photographs, videos, audio slide shows and any other medium that fits — our format.
Lens will be a showcase for the work of Times photographers, but it will also highlight the best images from other newspapers, magazines, news organizations and picture agencies, and from around the Web. It will point readers in the direction of important books, galleries and museum exhibitions. And it will draw on The Times’s own pictorial archive, numbering in the millions of images and going back to the early 20th century.”
To see the images at Lens, point your browser to
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/good-morning/
Looking for art from the 1930s? Then check out this exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum:
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2009/1934/index.cfm
At this website, you can look at images from the period and use an interactive map to find the places where these images were created. Or, you can visit the Smithsonian and see these works of art in person. The exhibit at the Smithsonian runs through Januaray 3, 2010.
It’s not too late to register for the “Blogging the Arts” workshop that is being offered from noon-1pm on Friday, May 15, in Library #413! In this workshop, we’ll learn how to find, use, and create blogs that are relevant to the visual arts. Email Reference Librarian Sally Fortin at sfortin@scad.edu to register.
It’s not too late to register for the Zotero workshop that is being offered from noon-1pm tomorrow in Library #413! Zotero is a free, online tool that allows you to save and organize your research. This tool also formats citations for you in a variety of formats, including MLA, APA, and Chicago. Email Reference Librarian Sally Fortin at sfortin@scad.edu to register.
The Official White House Photostream is now on Flickr. Images from President Obama’s First Hundred Days are now online at http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse