Arts Newsletter

As part of the Excellence in Research in Australia 2018, the Australian Research Council is requesting ACU provide ORCIDs as a component of the ERA submission.

In our continued support of research and researchers at ACU, we in the Library are happy to assist researchers in the generation and maintenance of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor Identification (https://orcid.org/)

To that end we are coordinating ORCID Week from the 20^th-24^th November to increase awareness about ORCID, and to encourage as many academic staff and higher degree by research students as possible to create and to populate their ORCID with their publications.

This will involve our library staff visiting Schools and Institutes, and assisting your staff register for ORCID, as well as collecting ORCIDs. There will be events on campuses in this week to raise awareness about ORCID and its role in the scholarly process. We will be posting more details about these events in the Staff Bulletin.

For more information contact your Senior Library Coordinator, LARS Fiona Gibson

The library is currently piloting our new reading list software, Leganto.  We anticipate that Leganto will simplify the process of creating and maintaining reading lists, and applying copyright.  The pilot was very successful and the majority of academics who used it for their courses this year were very pleased with the usability and performance of the software.  Two academics from the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy, Jason Macfarland and Gareth Wearne, participated in the pilot and were very happy with the performance and ease of use.

The next step in the roll out is to introduce it to each faculty and we are pleased to say that Theology and Philosophy will be the first faculty to have full access to it, starting in Semester 1, 2018.  In preparation for this, we would like to start familiarising academic staff with the software and offering training sessions.  Ideally, all academic staff in the faculty will receive training in the use of Leganto before they finish this semester.

For more information contact your Senior Library Coordinator, LARS Fiona Gibson

Artstor is a non-profit organization that builds and distributes the Digital Library, an online resource of more than 2 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences.

The Digital Library is continually expanded by new contributions such as: Mark Rothko Estate; Latin American Art (Cisneros Collection); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); Christopher Roy: African Art and Architecture; Berlin State Museums; the Gernsheim Corpus of Master Drawings (185,000 images of old master drawings); Larry Qualls Archive (100,000 images documenting 30 years of New York City gallery exhibitions); architectural photography from Esto, Canyonlights and ART on FILE; university collections from Harvard and Yale; and historical photo archives such as the National Gallery of Art and Frick Art Reference Library, among many others.

This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world. They helped transform societies, global trading operations, habits of consumption and social practices. Types of materials include business accounts, mercantile papers, government reports, dock records, and advertisements. The 15 commodities represented are: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, wheat, and wine and spirits.

Fiona Gibson Senior Library Coordinator, LARS, Music, Visual Arts

Daryl Bailey Senior Librarian, LARS, Arts

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