ARTstor New collection release: The Museum of Modern Art

ARTstor is collaborating with The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to share more than 1,400 images of works from its permanent collection in the Digital Library. The images have been selected from the museum's unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary painting and sculpture. The works in the Department of Painting and Sculpture represent a comprehensive overview of major artists and artistic movements from the late 19th century to the present, including masterworks by Umberto Boccioni, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Gauguin, Natalia Goncharova, Frida Kahlo, Vasily Kandinsky, Georgia O'Keeffe, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Fernand Léger, Rene Magritte, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Auguste Rodin, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Vincent van Gogh, and Andy Warhol, among others.* These selections will join two other collections that MoMA has shared through ARTstor for scholarly and educational use: the Architecture and Design and the Exhibition Installation Photograph Collection from The Museum of Modern Art Archives.

The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1929 as an educational institution and is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. Its permanent collection consists of more than 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects, as well as approximately 22,000 films and four million film stills. The museum also maintains a library and archives to support research and scholarship related to modern and contemporary art. In 2004, MoMA completed the most ambitious building project in its history; Yoshio Taniguchi's design nearly doubled the museum's space for exhibitions and programs. Learn more

* Please note that some images may not be released due to copyright restrictions.

Image Credits Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, 1853-1890 | The Starry Night | The Museum of Modern Art • Bruce Nauman, American, born 1941 | Human/Need/Desire | The Museum of Modern Art | © 2009 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York • Yves Klein, French, 1928-1962 | Anthropometry: Princess Helena | The Museum of Modern Art | © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris • Constantin Brancusi, French, 1876-1957 | Mlle Pogany, version 1 | The Museum of Modern Art • Andy Warhol, American, 1928-1987 | Gold Marilyn Monroe | The Museum of Modern Art | © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. • Lee Krasner, American, 1908-1984 | Gaea | The Museum of Modern Art | © 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

ARTstor and Facts on File Database Updates!

ARTstor Updates:

Now available: Buddhist art from Lantian, China
ARTstor is collaborating with Northwestern University Academic and Research Technologies to share 20 images, including 7 Quick Time Virtual Reality (QTVR) panoramas, documenting Buddhist sculpture at Shuilu'an Temple in Lantian, Shaanxi Province, China.
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New collection agreement: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
ARTstor is collaborating with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) to share approximately 1,000 images of modern and contemporary art from its permanent collection in the Digital Library.
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New collection agreement: Barbara Anello: Photographs of Southeast Asia and Morocco
ARTstor is collaborating with Barbara Anello to share approximately 750 images of the architecture, arts, and culture of Southeast Asia and Morocco in the Digital Library.
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New collection agreement: Emilio Sanchez Foundation
ARTstor is collaborating with the Emilio Sanchez Foundation to share 79 images of works by the Cuban-born American artist Emilio Sanchez in the Digital Library.
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Citation Enhancements--Updates to MLA-style Citations
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World News Digest

· Latest cover feature: Mexico's Drug War.

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· National High School Debate Topic: The 2009-10 topic, Poverty and Social Services, was posted online during the summer, and we will continue to link to it from the home page throughout the school year. For links to our coverage of the national debate topics since 1997, see National High School Debate Topics.

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Today's Science

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Announcing the Redesign of the Florida Electronic Library and Gale’s PowerSearch 2.0!

The Florida Electronic Library—your gateway to superior electronic resources that offer access to comprehensive, accurate, and reliable information—is pleased to announce a redesigned Web site (http://www.flelibrary.org) and the migration to Gale’s PowerSearch 2.0 platform.

The newly designed site makes accessing information from the Florida Electronic Library collection easier than ever. In addition to locating authoritative sources such as magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias, and books, and providing up-to-date information on current events, education, business, technology, and health issues, the new site also helps users connect directly with librarians and libraries across the state.

Students, families, teachers, and librarians will find valuable tools to meet their information needs as well. Whether you are a teacher looking for a lesson plan or a student looking for the best electronic information to complete a report for school, the Florida Electronic Library has the quality information and sources you need.

In addition to the site redesign, the Florida Electronic Library is also very pleased to announce that Gale’s PowerSearch 2.0 has been enabled for all InfoTrac resources in the collection. Improvements to Gale’s PowerSearch platform include:

§ Better navigation options, including the new Publication Browse with hover technology, allowing users to see more publication details without clicking through

§ Three languages (Arabic, Polish, and Russian) added to the translation feature, enabling users to translate any of the 150 million articles available on the PowerSearch platform into 11 different languages

§ Addition of “named user” functionality, allowing researchers to save their search histories, maintain search alerts, create RSS feeds, and save documents into their own customized folders

§ Enhanced search results that incorporate images, videos, and podcasts directly into the results list

§ Web 2.0 sharing tools including Del.icio.us, MySpace, Reddit, Digg, Facebook, Newsvine, Twitter, and others

§ ReadSpeaker technology, allowing users to have all articles available via PowerSearch read to them, or downloaded into MP3 format (for an iPod or other audio device) to listen to later

Ready to take advantage of these great new enhancements?

Login at http://www.flelibrary.org and let a pathway to learning begin!

Big Band Brawl with Helios Jazz Orchestra!

The Helios Jazz Orchestra takes on its toughest charts in a free concert Tuesday, September 15 at 7:30 PM at the St. Petersburg College Music Center. Director David Manson coaches the big band through the music of Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, Steve Speigel, Tom Jobim, Victor Lopez, and other champs.

The Music Center at SPC is located at 6605 Fifth Ave. North in St. Petersburg. Call 727.341 4363 for more information.

Healthbase: A Powerful Medical Search Engine

NetBase Solutions has launched HealthBase, a powerful semantic search engine that aggregates medical content from millions of authoritative health sites including WebMD, Wikipedia, PubMed, and the Mayo Clinic’s health site. NetBase's Content Intelligence for healthcare platform allows you to find:

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