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New to Colgate's ever-growing collection of digital resources is ARTstor, a database that offers visual images for educational use.  Like its sibling, Jstor, ARTstor is a project of the Mellon Foundation:

ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. ARTstor has developed a digital library of images (including art, architecture and archeology) and descriptive data. ARTstor also provides software tools to enable active use of the images. The tools support a wide range of uses including analyzing images, saving groups of images online, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. This is a resource available only for non-commercial, educational uses.
ARTstor's definition of "art" is encompassing. It includes architecture, painting, photography, prints, drawings, sculpture, decorative arts and design, as well as archeological and anthropological objects.
The database includes digital images of art, architecture and archeology browsable by collection, category, and Image Group.  Descriptive data about each digital image including such information as creator, title, object date, creator birth/death dates. Most data include subject headings allowing searching by topics.

Librarian Rebecca Hewitt and Slide Curator Carol Van Schaack have already held one standing-room-only training session for ARTstor; a second will be offered on Tuesday, August 23rd in the Clark Room at Case Library @JCC.  Please RSVP to rhewitt@mail.colgate.edu