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Welcome Back CVPA Faculty!

Welcome back to a new academic year at USF!  I started this blog in January when I became the librarian for CVPA in order to communicate more effectively about library resources and services that impact you directly.  In order to subscribe to this blog, click on Subscribe (RSS) to have the content of this blog automatically delivered to you.  By clicking on a heading of a post you may post a comment as well.

I look forward to working with you this coming year - Audrey

Audrey Powers
Associate Librarian for College of Visual and Performing Arts
Research Services & Collections
Phone: 813.974.9001
Fax:     813.974.9875
Email:  apowers@lib.usf.edu

New Library Books Acquired This Summer for CVPA

To view a list of the books received this summer, click on a link below.

Architecture  /  Art & Art History  /  Museum Studies  /  Music  /  Theatre & Dance

New library books received each week are available for perusal in the Faculty Research Suite on the 6th floor of the Library.  We welcome faculty and library liaisons to review the books and participate in deciding which books are valuable for our collection.  Books needed by faculty for research and instruction can be ordered on an as needed basis as well.

For additional information about ordering library materials, feel free to contact your faculty representative or collection development librarian:

Architecture
Faculty Representative - Jin Baek
Collection Development Librarian - Ilene Frank

Art
Faculty Representative - Anat Polack
Collection Development Librarian - Audrey Powers

Art History
Faculty Representative - Heather Vinson
Collection Development Librarian - Audrey Powers

Music
Faculty Representative - John Robison
Collection Development Librarian - Lorel Reinstrom

Theatre
Faculty Representative - David Frankel
Collection Development Librarian - Brian Falato

Dance
Faculty Representative - Gretchen Warren (Fall); Merri Lynn Morris (Spring)
Collection Development Librarian - Brian Falato

Upcoming Workshops

Library Workshops you and your students may be interested in attending.

Web Sites

Check out world-newspapers.com for Culture and Art Magazines Online.  This is a great site that pulls together many of the online visual and performing arts magazines.

Database Updates

Camio: Art images are rights-cleared for educational use

                       

You can provide your students with high-quality art images from leading museums through CAMIO — Catalog of Art Museum Images Online. It offers content that is rights-cleared for educational use.

CAMIO has more than 95,000 images contributed and described by premiere museums worldwide. A few museums that have contributed their collections include the Dallas Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Supporting class projects, presentations, research and courses.  CAMIO showcases a wide range of fine and decorative art.  The art images span the following categories: prints, posters, photographs, sculptures, paintings, costumes, decorative arts, utilitarian objects and jewelry.

New Databases

ARTstor is here!

ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, all of whom find the images in ARTstor to be relevant to their teaching and research. To learn more, please see our section on Interdisciplinary uses.

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International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text is the definitive research tool for the study of theatre and the performing arts.  It indexes over 60,000 journal articles, books, chapters, and dissertations on all aspects of theatre and performance from over 126 countries. International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains more than 400 full-text titles such as Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, and Theater and  more than 270 full-text books such as Avant Garde Theatre, British Realist Theatre, History of European Drama and Theatre, Learning Through Theatre, Opera, Performance Theory, Shakespeare, Theory and Performance, Theatre and the World, Twentieth-Century Actor Training, Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre, and World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre 

Alinari

Fratelli Alinari was founded in 1852 and is the oldest photographic archive in the world with over 3,500,000 photographs, ranging from the invention of photography to the present. For the first time Alinari PhotoLibrary Educational offers online access to a selection of 150,000 pictures for virtually every discipline.  The leading university professors in Italy and Europe selected the more than 90,000 nineteenth and twentieth-century historical pictures, vintage prints in sepia and black and white and 60,000 color pictures.  The core of the images covers:

Historical, economic and social disciplines:  Anthropology, Communication Sciences, Economy, Education Sciences, Ethnography, Geography, History, Industrial History, Journalism, Political Sciences

Scientific disciplines:   Agricultural Sciences, Astronomy, Botany, Engineering, Food Sciences, Medicine, Transportation, Psychology, Zoology

Artistic and literary disciplines: Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Cinema, Drawing and Graphic Art, Fashion and Costume, Literature, Music, Photography, Television, Theater, Architecture.   (Includes the great works of art from the more important national and international museums in the world such as the Uffizi, Louvre, Vatican, and the Guggenheim.)

Searches can be conducted by author, subject, place depicted, date, photographic; by thesaurus, or works of art vs. photographs.  Search options by the numbers include:

8,000 search keywords in the iconographic thesaurus
2,300 geographical sites in the world in the geographic thesaurus
2,800 photographers
300 events, including wars, natural catastrophes, breakthroughs in science
7,800 Personalities

Important note on the use of this collection:

Begin with the “Automatic Access” (green) link as there is no user name and password that is required to use this collection.   Once you wish to view or download an image (480x480), there is a charge of one credit.  USF has acquired 15,000 credits that are distributed across the IP ranges of the USF network.   Be sure to click on the English tab to use the site in English. 

The World of Alwin Nikolais

The World of Alwin Nikolais is a 5-part DVD series featuring dances created by Alwin Nikolais, and duplicating Nikolais's original stage presentations with regard to choreography, sound, lighting design, and costumes.  Performances by the Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Company with dancers Simonetta Bucci, Karen Safrit, Stephanie Scopelitus, Donna Scro, Joelle van Sickle, Kay Andersen, Clarence Brooks, Alberto del Saz, Eric Dunlap, Peter Kyle.

Volume 1. Crucible (1985) ; Men's duet from Mechanical organ (1980) ; Mantis from Imago (1963) ; Cave from Tent (1968) ; Rooftops from Imago (1963) ; Tensile involvement (1953) : Kennedy Center honors performance. 
Volume 2. Opening dance from Gallery (1978) ; Finale from Mechanical organ (1980) ; Boulevard from Imago (1963) ; Hoop from Totem (1960) ; Garden from Tent (1968) ; Noumenon (1953) ; Finale from Totem (revised 1983)
Volume 3. Pond (1982) ; Opening dance from Mechanical organ (1980) ; Clothes from Kaleidoscope (revised 1985) ; Quintet from Mechanical organ (1980) ; First dance from Gallery (1978) ; Duet from Mechanical organ (1980) ; Descent to Hell from Tent (1968)
Volume 4. Triple trio from Gallery (1964) ; Jump dance from Totem (1960) ; Kites from Imago (1963) ; Shadow opening from Totem (1960) ; Celebrants from Totem (1960) ; Blank on blank (1987) ; Sanctum (1964)
Volume 5. Suite from Imago (1963) ; Chrysalis from Imago (1963) ; Artisan from Imago (1963) ; Effigy from Totem (1960) ; Reliquary from Totem (1960) ; Clique from Imago (1963) ; Masks and clowns from Gallery (1978) ; Tensile involvement (1953).

USF MEDIA RESOURCES-Tampa DVD -- GV1783.W67 2006

Print Journals Review - Your Input is Needed!

The Library Council and the Research Services & Collections librarians are finalizing a Print Journals Review project and we need your input. 

This spring faculty were surveyed about their use of select print journals in their disciplines and this final review is an opportunity to offer faculty one last chance to contribute to the conclusion of the review process.

Please visit the USF Tampa Library's web site to review the title lists.  The Visual and Performing Arts titles are listed HERE.  Click on any title that should be retained and complete the Journal Retention Form stating why this print title is important to your teaching or research. 

The Print Journals Review site will be available from August 15-September 30.