Jen Library Reference Department

Great news! SCAD Libraries have just acquired access to 130+ streaming videos via the the Films on Demand database. This company produces educational videos on a wide range of art-related topics, such as architecture, fashion, art history, theater and performance, photography, and filmmaking; but also fiction, poetry, writing, the sciences, politics, U.S. and world history, and much more. Titles range in length from 15 minutes to an hour and make great information sources for research papers and projects.

A few features about this database that are really cool:

• Films are broken up into short segments of 2-4 minutes, so it’s easy to jump to different areas or show a brief segment for a class
• Share videos by email and cut and paste video URLs into documents and presentations
• Create a personal account to “favorite” your films
• Create a playlist of segments from many different films
• You can search the database by video or segment title. For example, you can find segments about “color” from all videos in SCAD’s streaming collection

Ready to get started? Head to our Libraries’ Databases page and look for Films On Demand. Or view any of the individual titles below (login required).

Architectural Techniques

Bauhaus: The Face of the 20th Century

Cutting Their Own Cloth: Entrepreneurial Clothing Designers

Fractals: The Colors of Infinity

Intelligence, Creativity and Thinking Styles

The Players: Costumes and Makeup

The Walls of Mexico: Art and Architecture

Watch What You Say: Free Speech in Times of National Crisis

Great news – SCAD Libraries have just added almost 50 new online journals to our collection. The journal contents are available as PDF full-text documents that can be read and saved anywhere, anytime you’re doing research online. Best of all, the most current issue and all of the available back issues for each title can be accessed.

Titles that sound particularly interesting:

• Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education
• Film International
• Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
• New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film
• The Soundtrack
• Technoetic Arts: a Journal of Speculative Research

There are plenty more covering subjects such as cinema studies, creative writing, cultural studies, sociology, and visual art. Here is a PDF of the full list.

Ready to jump in? Search for individual titles in our collection of full-text journals, browse as a group under “Atypon Link”, OR search for articles by keyword, author, etc. using “Atypon Links” in our database list  (log in with your SCAD ID and name to view full-text content).

Contact a librarian if you have any questions or feedback about using this new resource.

CC image by Rainer Ebert

The Library (& friends) are offering lots of great workshops this quarter! Whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student, or teaching faculty, we have something for you:

Research Survival 101

Sunday, January 24 / 5:00 – 7:00 p.m./ O-House Ballroom
For all current SCAD students

Does writing research papers feel like an impossible task? Are you full of great ideas, but not sure how to get them down on paper? Do trustworthy, professor-approved sources seem to elude you?

If you answered YES to any of the above questions, come to Research Survival 101! This interactive workshop will provide practical strategies for staying organized, focused, and creative with research assignments. Come ready to share ideas and actively participate to solve your biggest research and writing dilemmas. No RSVP is necessary and food and drinks are provided! Presented by SCAD’s Jen Library and The Writers Studio.

Image Databases at SCAD

Thursday, January 28 OR Friday, January 29 / both 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. / Jen Library Room 108
For all SCAD faculty, staff and students

The Visual Resources Center (VRC) offers these workshops to highlight the digital image resources that are available to the SCAD community. Learn the fundamentals of using ARTstor to find and save images, download and organize images from the SCAD Digital Image Database (DID), and then incorporate these images into class presentations using the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV). Participants will also learn how to have images added to the SCAD DID to fill the needs of specific courses and student presentations.

Seating is limited so please email vrc@scad.edu, or call 525-4726 to reserve a spot. The VRC also offers individual training by appointment for those unable to make it to the workshops.

Copyright Concerns, Copyright Solutions Faculty Workshop

Friday, January 29 / 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. / Arnold Hall, #108
For SCAD Faculty

Join us for a discussion about copyright issues relating to the library at SCAD. Library representatives will be present to answer questions and provide solutions to the challenges facing copyright and fair use in the library environment. In order to better focus on the SCAD community’s unique copyright and fair use issues, we are asking for questions in advance of this event. Please email your library specific questions to: htatom (at) scad (dot) edu. Please slo RSVP to this address if you plan to attend. Co-sponsored by Jen Library and Innovative Teaching and Learning.

**And don’t forget that SCAD’s Writers Studio and Learning Resource Hive offer great workshops as well!**