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Description: ARTstor Digital Library is the database for images. An image library for the Arts and Sciences of over a million digital images, ARTstor comprises images for education, research and teaching across multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and sciences, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, history, American studies, Asian studies, and classical studies. This course will explore the content on offer in ARTstor, searching techniques, creating images groups and folders, using ARTstor images in presentations, and other tools available from the database.

Target audience:

• All University members (this includes colleges and departments)
• UL Readers with an interest in this field
• Further details regarding Cambridge University Library's eligibility criteria are available

Duration: One session of one hour and a half

Sessions:

Number of sessions: 1

Date	Time	Venue	Trainer
Fri 9 Mar	10:00 - 11:30	Cambridge University Library, Morison Room	James Caudwell , Susanne Jennings , Tanya Zhimbiev

Format: Presentations and demonstrations; question and answer session

Frequency: Termly

Aims:

• To introduce and explore the image database ARTstor
• To describe the navigation and organization of the database
• To show the range of features in ARTstor for users to display and repurpose images for teaching and research

Further resources:

• ARTstor Digital Library

Related courses:

• Be The Boss of Your Hard Drive - Working With Digital Data
• Map Resources

Themes:

• Information Skills
• Special Collections